Coronavirus: Hong Kong set to reveal details of travel bubble with Singapore, steps to cut quarantine for returnees from Guangdong
- More measures to contain the spread of Covid-19 will also be revealed at a government press conference on Wednesday morning
- City records another Covid-19 death and two new locally transmitted infections, each with a traceable source
Hong Kong will on Wednesday announce details of a travel bubble with Singapore and steps allowing residents returning from mainland China to skip quarantine, the Post has learned.
More measures to contain the spread of Covid-19 will also be revealed at a government press conference on Wednesday morning, including requiring currently exempted people returning from the mainland to take a virus test and notifying residents of places with confirmed cases with a new app.
“Hongkongers will need to stay vigilant and the government will further tighten measures to contain the virus,” a source familiar with the policymaking decisions said.
“Cross-boundary travel by land and air can only be allowed when the risks are acceptable and controlled measures are in place.”
Health secretary Sophia Chan Siu-chee, commerce minister Edward Yau Tang-wah and IT chief Alfred Sit Wing-hang will attend the press conference.
The government has been under tremendous pressure to reopen travel with other countries and neighbouring Guangdong province but the intermittent emergence of local Covid-19 cases with untraceable sources has stalled the negotiation process.