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Hong Kong to Lift ban on Flights From Nine Countries

March 21, 2022
Stephen KotochiebyStephen Kotochie
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Hong Kong to Lift ban on Flights From Nine Countries

Hong Kong is set to resume international flights from the United States, Britain and seven other countries, the government disclosed on Monday, March 21, 2022, as it announced a loosening of some of the world’s toughest COVID-19 restrictions.

The money hub has struggled to maintain China’s zero-Covid policy during the Omicron-fuelled outbreak.

After the highly transmissible variant fuelled a fresh wave of cases in January this year (2022), authorities quickly put in place flight bans from eight countries deemed high-risk, including the United States, Britain, France and India and in February 2022, and added a ninth, which was Nepal.

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Iinfections climbed rapidly, with Hong Kong recording more than a million cases and 5,600 deaths, with the bulk of the toll among its unvaccinated elderly population.

On Monday, March 21, 2022, Chief Executive of Hong Kong, Carrie Lam, revealed that starting April 1, 2022, Hong Kong will lift flight bans, referred to as a “circuit-breaker”, for the nine countries. “The circuit-breaker … is inopportune now,” she disclosed during a press conference.

“The epidemic situations in those countries are not worse than Hong Kong’s, and most arrivals did not have serious symptoms. To extend the circuit-breaker will add to concerns and anxieties of Hong Kong residents stranded there.”

Chief Executive of Hong Kong, Carrie Lam

Lam also said the quarantine period for vaccinated arrivals will also be reduced to seven days in a designated hotel, followed by another seven days of at-home monitoring. However, Lam did not specify what date the change will begin.

Currently, Hong Kong residents trying to return from most destinations face a two-week quarantine stay in expensive hotels.

Lam also announced that starting April 19, 2022, kindergartens, primary schools and international schools will resume in-person teaching, while from April 21, 2022, restaurants may stay open after 6 pm for dine-in services, which is currently banned, while public gatherings can include four people, up from the current two.

Suspended mass testing

Lam’s administration has been rubbed-off for its handling of the Covid crisis, with critics calling it unprepared despite two years of breathing room due to the low number of cases before Omicron hit in January 2021.

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Hospital wards were flooded with patients and morgues overcrowded with bodies, leading to a coffin shortage with the spiralling death toll ISAAC LAWRENCE AFP

Once the variant broke through, hospital wards were flooded with patients and morgues overcrowded with bodies, leading to coffin shortages as of last week. Hong Kong currently has one of the highest death rates from Covid in the developed world.

Unclear public messaging from the government over mass testing and city lockdown measures has also fuelled bouts of panic-buying, leaving supermarkets shelves stripped bare. Known also as “Asia’s World City”, Hong Kong has also seen a record exodus of both foreign and local residents, with a net outflow of more than 134,000 people by mid-March, 2022.

Travel warnings were also issued by the United States over the potential for children to be separated from parents if they were to test positive for Covid upon arrival.

On Monday, March 21, 2022, Lam intimated that a previously floated plan to mass test Hong Kong’s 7.4 million residents is “not appropriate” at this stage, given the city’s limited resources.

“Our current opinion is to suspend it and whether we will do it depends on the development of the epidemic,” says Lam.

Hong Kong’s deepened international isolation and lack of a roadmap to normality have incited complaints from business and diplomatic communities, even prompting some major international banks to accelerate relocations.

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