Hong Kong is to start relaxing its strict Covid-19 rules to allow international travellers to visit from 1 May.
The Chinese region’s government is to allow fully vaccinated international passengers to enter Hong Kong from overseas on the same boarding, quarantine and testing arrangements as the city’s residents from the start of next month.
These requirements include being fully vaccinated, taking a pre-departure test and booking a designated quarantine hotel in Hong Kong.
Travellers also have to go through a “test and hold” arrangement at Hong Kong International airport before being transferred to their quarantine hotel for seven days.
Hong Kong is also adjusting its route-specific flight suspension mechanism for services where a certain number of passengers test positive for Covid.
“If there are five or more passengers, or five per cent or more of the total number of passengers on board the same flight, whichever is higher, that test positive for Covid-19 upon arrival, the airline's passenger flights of that route from the same origin place will be prohibited from landing in Hong Kong for five days,” explained the Hong Kong government.
Hong Kong lifted the ban on flights from nine countries, including the UK, France and the US, on 1 April.