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Letters | Singapore travel bubble or local housing, Hongkongers don’t come first in Hong Kong

  • The national security office has quickly taken up unused hotel space, while families continue to wait for more than five years for a home
  • The travel bubble with Singapore is another example of Hongkongers being treated like second-class citizens

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Containers carrying Sinovac Covid-19 vaccines are unloaded from a Cathay Pacific plane at Hong Kong International Airport on February 19. To qualify for travel bubble flights between Hong Kong and Singapore, travellers from Hong Kong must be vaccinated – but not travellers from Singapore. Photo: SCMP Pictures
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It has been four weeks since I had my second Covid BioNTech vaccination and by now the antibodies should be building up in my body. As a good citizen I also use the Leave Home Safe and the iAM Smart government apps.

Getting the two vaccinations has proved to be a bit of an anti-climax, as it now appears the benefits of getting them are few and far between.

I am able to fly to a number of countries throughout the world without the need to quarantine on arrival. However, if I return to Hong Kong, I need to retest and go through 21 days of quarantine despite having received my vaccinations in this city.

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I would love to hear someone in the government comment on why Singaporeans can come to Hong Kong with no vaccinations, Hong Kong residents using the Singapore bubble can return without quarantine, but other fully vaccinated Hong Kong travellers cannot do the same.

Surely a test before the return flight, a test on arrival in Hong Kong, and the production of the Hong Kong government’s electronic vaccination certificate should be enough.

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K. Spencer, Sham Tseng

Government does not seem to like the people much

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