Covid-19: Hong Kong to require quarantine camp stay for travellers from US

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HONG KONG — Hong Kong will require inbound travellers from the United States to spend seven days at a government quarantine camp, after a passenger coming from the US tested positive for the Omicron variant of Covid-19.

The new rules, which comes into effect Monday , means travellers from the US will be subject to the highest tier of quarantine measures in the semi-autonomous city, which has some of the strictest anti-Covid policies in the world.

Travellers from the US will only be allowed to enter the city if they are fully vaccinated Hong Kong residents and will be required to spend their first seven days at a quarantine centre with daily testing and health monitoring.US travellers entering Hong Kong are already required to quarantine for a total of 21 days, but under current rules, they can remain in a hotel for the duration of their isolation.

"The whole genome sequencing conducted by the Department of Health's Public Health Laboratory Services Branch confirmed the case to be an Omicron case," it said.

 

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