As a Hong Kong dependent resident, and a former British diplomat with postings in the region, I would like to think that the British consulate-general here, and the embassy in Beijing, will lobby at a senior level for a rapid change to this nonsensical exclusion, which bears no relation to the facts.

Peter Beckingham, Repulse Bay

Don’t exclude children from eased quarantine rules

It comes as a huge shock and bitter disappointment to families that minor children of vaccinated parents travelling from abroad into Hong Kong can’t enjoy a reduction of quarantine themselves. Does the government trust its own vaccination programme?

We are speaking of children who haven’t seen their grandparents or older siblings for two years now. Families have been punished at every turn – school closure, beach closure, school kids sent to quarantine camp – and are once again paying the full price.

S. Barry, Mid-Levels

Yuen Long library should enforce mask rule

There is a man who uses the computer room of Yuen Long public library from about 3pm to 8pm every day, and who refuses to wear his mask properly. When asked by a member of staff to cover his nose with his mask, he would pull it up so that his nose was not exposed. The minute the member of staff walked away, he pulled down his mask.

Now, the staff does not bother asking him to wear his mask properly. What’s the point?

I complained to the second-in-command at the library on April 28, asking that the man not be allowed into the library, but to no avail. I then complained to the Leisure and Cultural Services Department, which manages public libraries, on May 3 and the same person from the Yuen Long library phoned me two days later, repeating what she said on April 28.

If there is an outbreak of Covid-19 at the Yuen Long public library, the Leisure and Cultural Services Department can’t say it wasn’t warned.

Robert Lung, Yuen Long