HONG KONG, CHINA. Hong Kong’s tourism sector received another body blow today as the authorities announced that they were raising 15 countries to the ‘high-risk’ category effective Friday 20 August.
Anyone entering the Special Administrative Region from one of the named countries will have to quarantine for 21 days (raised from 14) in a designated hotel.
They are: Bangladesh, Cambodia, France, Greece, Iran, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Sri Lanka, Spain, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, the UAE and the USA.
The South China Morning Post noted that travellers who were coming in from previously designated high-risk countries such as the UK who had hoped to reduce their hotel quarantine from three weeks to two by staying somewhere such the UAE would now have to undergo the maximum quarantine in Hong Kong.
The report said that travellers from the 15 new high-risk nations must be fully vaccinated for at least 14 days before boarding a flight to Hong Kong, then undergo 21 days of quarantine in a designated hotel upon arrival. They must also undergo four tests during isolation and another on the 26th day after arrival.
