Hong Kong to Cut Hotel Quarantine as Beijing Shows Support

Hong Kong’s residents have been expecting a reduction in travel curbs, including hotel quarantine requirements and pre-flight PCR testing

(Bloomberg) — Hong Kong wants to relax Covid rules like mandatory hotel quarantines that have made travel difficult for nearly three years, Chief Executive John Lee said Tuesday, and mainland officials signaled their approval.

The number of new infections in the Asian financial hub has fallen to about 6,000 a day, creating room to reconsider measures that have crimped the city’s competitiveness, Lee told reporters at a weekly briefing. Hotel quarantines will be replaced with seven days of home health monitoring, the South China Morning Post reported, though it said the change won’t be announced until all the details have been determined.