Hong Kong Allows Home Quarantine for Patients With Latest Covid Versions

What’s new: Hong Kong threw in the towel on centralized quarantine rules as authorities continued to ease Covid-19 restrictions and new infections rose past 4,000 cases a day, the highest level since early April.

The city will no longer require people with the most highly infectious Covid subvariants to isolate at government-run quarantine facilities. It will allow patients with omicron subvariants BA.4 or BA.5 and their close contacts to quarantine at home as long as they have enough bathrooms, said Chuang Shuk-kwan, an official at the Health Department’s Center for Health Protection, at a briefing Thursday.