{"id":17217,"date":"2021-04-26T16:10:54","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T16:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=17217"},"modified":"2021-04-26T16:33:42","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T16:33:42","slug":"__trashed-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/__trashed-6","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong eases Covid-19 quarantine requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Hong Kong wants to resume the flow of people between Hong Kong, Guangdong and Macau by easing quarantine requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Hong Kong.- Sophia Chan Siu-chee<\/strong>, Hong Kong’s secretary for food and health, has announced that Hong Kong will allow non-residents<\/strong> from Guangdong province and Macau to enter Hong Kong without undergoing quarantine<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The announcement is part of an initiative dubbed “Come2HK Scheme”<\/strong>, which is designed to ease travel restrictions amid the Covid-19 pandemic<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The news could benefit Macau’s casino operators<\/strong>. However, authorities have previously stated that a travel bubble between Macau and Hong Kong<\/a> will not be possible until the latter registers no local infections for 14 consecutive days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For now, Macau requires a 14-day quarantine<\/a> for arrivals from Hong Kong. Mainland China<\/strong> is the only country to have a largely quarantine-free travel bubble<\/a> with Macau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hong Kong and Singapore have announced an air travel bubble to begin on May 26. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Residents from Singapore will be able to fly freely with only a negative Covid-19 test result<\/strong>, while Singapore will also ask people travelling from Hong Kong to have been vaccinated against Covid-19<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Singapore\u2019s Ministry of Transport said the volume of travellers would be \u201ccapped at 200 passengers on each flight <\/strong>for the first two weeks.” After two weeks, there will be a review.<\/p>\n\n\n\nHong Kong and Singapore announce new travel bubble<\/h2>\n\n\n\n