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Letters | Hong Kong coronavirus: spare jabbed UK returnees 21-day quarantine rule
- With flights set to resume this week, Hong Kong should believe its own advice about the benefits of getting vaccinated and relax strict rules for the returnees
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It is undoubtedly a big relief for the many Hongkongers stranded in UK and Ireland, that the travel ban into the city is finally going to be lifted this week (“Coronavirus: flights from Britain to Hong Kong resuming on Friday, ending four-month ban”, May 4).
With the frustration and anger of being stranded for months subsiding, the would-be returnees would then face a grim 21-day quarantine in a small hotel room. It is most taxing for even the fittest soul.
What’s more, this ordeal could be bitterly ironic. Hong Kong has been preaching the many merits of the coronavirus vaccine – “Protect yourself and others” – and indeed many of the returnees from the UK and Ireland are already fully vaccinated, and with the BioNTech vaccine, which experts believe gives protection against some Covid-19 variants.
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So why do the returnees still have to be quarantined for 21 days? Why can’t they go home and be quarantined at home? Does the SAR government not believe in its own preaching?
To be vaccinated or not to be vaccinated: what is the difference here? I wonder.
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Cecilia Ng, Pok Fu Lam
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