Quarantine reduction for Pax
Carrie lam says that HK needs to integrate more with China but hey at least they are dropping mandated prison time down. Maybe this will coax more into getting jabbed.
This will help boost passenger numbers. At least one step closer to a recovery.
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3138131/coronavirus-hong-kong-reduce-covid-19-quarantine The mandatory quarantine period for fully vaccinated Hong Kong residents testing positive for coronavirus antibodies on their return from lower-risk countries could be halved from 14 to seven days, the Post has learned. Details of the latest arrangements are expected to be revealed at a Monday afternoon press conference led by Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, according to sources, with the government likely to adopt the recommendations of its scientific advisers to loosen quarantine rules. Lam is also poised to announce the relaxation of some social-distancing measures. The shortened quarantine period is set to cover residents who have been fully vaccinated for at least 14 days and have returned from countries deemed to be “high risk” or lower for Covid-19. On arrival, they must test positive for antibodies against the coronavirus and negative for the virus itself. The seven-day quarantine would be applicable to Hong Kong residents, including work-visa holders, returning from countries classified in high-risk Group B and medium-risk Group C under the city’s five-tier system for assessing the overseas Covid-19 threat. Those returning from countries in A1 and A2 – judged to be extremely high risk and very high risk respectively – are either barred from returning altogether or have to quarantine for 21 days. Fully vaccinated people arriving from the lowest-risk countries – Australia and New Zealand of Group D – can already take advantage of seven-day quarantine. Government health advisers said earlier that testing for coronavirus antibodies could indicate whether international arrivals had been vaccinated. Antibody testing of people undergoing quarantine might also help identify false negative cases to ensure asymptomatic infections did not enter the community, they added. City leader Lam previously said she supported the experts’ suggestions for antibody testing and that health authorities were studying the detail of the proposals. |
What happens if you are double jabbed and don’t meet the testing threshold for antibodies?
Maybe less people should get the jab, then maybe they would scrap all these ridiculous rules that nobody wants or needs. Not to mention HKG will not get much economic benefit from opening travel to only its residents. |
Now they just have to come up with one good reason to visit Hong Kong other than "Transit" to somewhere else.
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The most interesting part is that you still have to quarantine on arrival from the zero-COVID New Zealand where you've been presumably locked up in your hotel room, double-jabbed and tested multiple times. This kind of absolutism is totally insane.
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Curry had a briefing
Mrs. Lam started the press conference saying:
Total Population with 2nd Vaccine Dose 1,280,169 (18.8% of Eligible Population*)
C will be allowed to operate at 75% capacity D will be allowed to operate at 100% capacity if all staff are fully vaccinated. Table sizes will be increased to 12. Venues such as weddings sizes can have 180 people.
599G (Group Gatherings)
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meanwhile at the top secret government briefing, in the boardroom on the 52nd floor of some unknown building, Carrie Lamb mutters the words..
"karaoke bars should have max 8 people..." not 7...not 9... 8 sounds good! This is what will solve the crisis caused by your office. this is what years of breeding liberals :mad: who get upset by words has done to the worlds economies. |
So you've had the vaccine, you test and don't have covid, you do a blood test and you show to have antibodies from the vaccine.
Why in god's name should you then have to quarantine for 7 days? |
Because they have created a dystopia where everyone assumes that this is the new norm. Masks/ restrictions on personal freedom/ attacks on liberties etc. Hong Kong in some respects is better than most in that her reaction has been to lock the stable doors. Hence relatively few cases and deaths. Further there is no incentive to get vaccinated and it’s just easier to lock people up, pilots, pesky travellers this sort of thing. The joys of a one party state.
And it will take years to unravel this nonsense. Years. |
Because… big brother knows best. So just sip your victory gin and keep working at the ministry of travel.
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Globocnik
cant really blame it on a one party system though. Australia has had its borders closed for a year and prison awaits all those who wish to return. We’re a democracy and we don’t get a say in when they will open |
I more than one way we - Australia - are worse than Hong Kong !
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The OZ and NZ strategy is certainly interesting.
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haha - do you really believe there is a strategy ? They have pained themselves in to a corner which is politically very difficult to get out of !
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Thats the point - now its politics - Australia will stay closed because there's an election coming and no-one wants to run against an Opposition screaming "Deadly Foreigners"
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