Hong Kong is allowing more fully vaccinated residents stranded overseas to return home along with foreign domestic helpers and business people.
All travellers must provide a negative virus test 72 hours before departure
Authorities are also pushing everyone on the government payroll – not only civil servants but also employees in key sectors – to be vaccinated or undergo regular testing at their own expense. As part of the new categorisation, countries currently deemed high- and medium-risk will be merged into a new medium-risk tier that will include most countries, including the United States, France, Germany and Japan. Non-residents from this category will be allowed to enter the city as long as they are fully vaccinated with officially recognised certification, and will have to undergo quarantine.
Vaccination certificates issued by local health authorities will, however, be accepted for medium- and low-risk countries.With Hong Kong being a well-connected international city, Lam said there was “simply no room for complacency” and not subjecting travellers to quarantine or restrictions would defeat the “efforts of many people over many months”.
Those already in the city and between contracts will be able to travel home and return as long as they are first inoculated in Hong Kong. But all of them must be quarantined for 21 days upon entry in one or two specified hotels. Meanwhile, airport staff, coach drivers to quarantine hotels and staff of such properties must get vaccinated or they will lose their jobs.
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