Hong Kong announced that they will be together from overseas or Taiwan's entry quarantine arrangements from overseas or Taiwan.Select the hotel and conduct three -day medical monitoring; you can go out during the period, but you cannot enter the restaurants, bars and other places.
Following the lifting restrictions on the immigration prevention of the immigration in Europe and the United States and Asia, Hong Kong will also cancel the mandatory hotel isolation measures for immigrants from next Monday (September 26).sick.Hong Kong business community generally welcomes new measures and hopes that the official will relax the entry restrictions as soon as possible to restore Hong Kong to restore competitiveness.
Hong Kong Chief Executive Li Jiachao announced the adjustment of epidemic prevention policies on Friday (September 23).From next week, the entry quarantine arrangements from overseas or Taiwan to Hong Kong will be changed from "3+4" to "0+3", that is, you can go home or stay in a self -selected hotel for three days of medical monitoring;Can't enter restaurants, bars and other places.
However, from the day of arriving in Hong Kong, the zero day, the nucleic acid detection is received every other day until the sixth day.
At present, travelers must be isolated in the hotel for three days, and then four -day medical monitoring.
In addition, the Hong Kong Government also canceled the requirements for the 48 -hour nucleic acid test report before boarding the aircraft to board the plane to replace the rapid antigen detection within 24 hours; Hong Kong residents who did not complete the vaccine can also board the aircraft to return to Hong Kong.
Lu Chongmao, director of the Medical and Health Bureau of the Hong Kong Government, pointed out that after Hong Kong's implementation of the "3+4" quarantine arrangement on August 12, Hong Kong's rendestant increased by 20 %, but the input cases continued to decline.Only 33 of them were diagnosed, so there was space to adjust the inbound prevention and control measures.
Asked whether the adjustment of epidemic prevention measures means that Hong Kong has given up dynamic clearance and changed to the choice of coexistence with the virus, Li Jiachao emphasized that the Hong Kong government will never "lie down" in resistance.Social operation.
He said: "The decisions of this time are based on the analysis of the epidemic data, including the risk of spreading from overseas people to Hong Kong, or even lower than the risk of communication in the local community, and considers people's livelihood., Economic activities, Hong Kong competitiveness, convenient entry and other factors. "
As for whether there is a timetable for implementing the "0+0", Li Jiachao said that he still has to see the changes in the epidemic.
Hong Kong has been implementing strict epidemic prevention measures this year, which has led many foreigners and enterprises to withdraw from Hong Kong.Chen Maobo, director of the Financial Department of the Hong Kong Government on Thursday (September 22), revealed that the probability of negative growth in Hong Kong's economy throughout the year is very high.
The Hong Kong business community and the tourism industry welcomes the Hong Kong Government to relax the immigration prevention measures, describing this as the first step in the customs clearance.Peng Yaojia, chairman of the Hong Kong Tourism Development Bureau, believes that new arrangements can attract business, visiting relatives, and returned people; officials have actively planned to revive the tourism work and will promptly promote the recovery of tourism in Hong Kong.
Singapore surpasses Hong Kong to become the world's third largest financial center
The Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce pointed out that Hong Kong's global ranking as an aviation hub and the financial center has fallen, which shows that the competitiveness of all walks of life is rapidly declining;Hong Kong is re -integrated with around the world.
The latest "Global Financial Center Index" shows that Singapore surpasses Hong Kong and becomes the third largest financial center in the world. New York and London still ranks first in two, and Hong Kong has fallen to fourth.
Dr. Zhou Bozhan, president of the Hong Kong Civil Think Tank "Xiangjiang Zhihui", analyzed in an interview with Lianhe Morning Post that recently the Hong Kong epidemic has begun to be controlled. In addition, the local economic weakness has prompted officials to accelerate the pace of foreign customs clearance.
Zhou Bozhan described that this time the Hong Kong Government's enrollment measures are a big step forward. If the vaccination rate is pushed to more than 90 %, the virus no longer varies, and Hong Kong will take measures such as foreign defense input.Further relax the inbound measures and fully release the restrictions on immigration prevention.
