Hong Kong health officials are expected to announce plans to reduce the mandatory three-week quarantine period for fully vaccinated people arriving on Friday afternoon.
Kyiv. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate – May 7, 2021 – Tourism and Travel
The existing 21-day quarantine for people with mutated coronavirus variants will also be reviewed. This decision will be announced additionally, according to a source familiar with the decision-making process.
New tough measures were introduced only last week when local health officials rushed to stop the spread of new variants of coronavirus among the population.
But as policy shifts were planned on Friday, health experts stressed the importance of antibody testing for those who were given a shorter quarantine period, and one infectious disease specialist said the government should also reconsider its isolation policy. all residents of houses in which mutation variants were detected.
On Tuesday, Hong Kong President Kerry Lam said health officials were examining whether those who received two injections could be subjected to shorter periods of isolation after some fully vaccinated quarantined residents asked why they were not. were released from quarantine after a negative test result.
Sources said the quarantine reduction plan would apply to those who had already received both doses of vaccination at least 14 days ago.
More than 5,500 signatures were collected this week for an online petition initiated by residents of Royalton and the Caribbean, calling on the government to allow quarantined residents to isolate themselves in their homes instead.
In China, for the entire period of the coronavirus pandemic, 90,739 cases were registered, for the past day – 13. The total number of deaths reached 4,636 cases.
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Source: Ukrgate
