HONG KONG: China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region will extend mandatory quarantine for all inbound travellers from the Chinese mainland that will expire on May 7 for another one month to June 7 amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
announced the extension, saying that persons such as cross-boundary students including students at kindergartens, primary and secondary schools or relevant staff working for students, and those who benefit Hong Kong's economy, or provide professional services will be exempted from the mandatory quarantine.
Persons such as drivers of cross-boundary goods delivery vehicles, crew members of arriving passenger and cargo planes, and crew members of cargo ships and fishing boats, have been exempted from the mandatory quarantine.
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