Hong Kong to further relax Covid restrictions 'soon'

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Hong Kong’s leader on Tuesday said he will soon make a decision on further relaxing coronavirus restrictions, as residents and businesses decry quarantine rules that have kept the finance hub cut off for more than two years.

HONG KONG, China – “We will make a decision soon and announce to the public,” chief executive John Lee told reporters.

It maintains mandatory hotel quarantine for international arrivals — currently at three days — widespread masking, business operating limits and bans on more than four people gathering in public. Over the past week multiple Hong Kong media outlets have reported, citing sources, that the government has already agreed to lift quarantine.But his comments were the strongest indication yet that Hong Kong is planning to join much of the rest of the world in accepting endemicity.“Our goal is to maximize Hong Kong’s international connectivity and reduce the inconvenience for arrivals due to quarantine, on the condition that we can control the trend of the pandemic,” Lee said.

 

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