Hong Kong health authorities to update city’s vaccination records to bring them in line with British requirements

British authorities will soon begin requiring incoming travellers’ vaccination records to include their date of birth

Though fully vaccinated arrivals from Hong Kong can presently be exempted from quarantine, the city’s jab records do not carry their date of birth

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Starting early next month, Britain will require arrivals’ vaccination records to include their date of birth, something Hong Kong’s forms lack. Photo: Reuters

Published: 9:17pm, 19 Sep 2021Updated: 9:45pm, 19 Sep 2021

Hong Kong health authorities will update the city’s Covid-19 vaccination records in a bid to bring them in line with new entry rules recently announced by the British government.

British authorities have said that the rules governing international travel to the country will switch from the current three-tiered system, with its green, amber and red levels, to one with a single red list starting at 4am on October 4, London time.

Under the new rules, anyone flying into the country who does not enjoy right of residency there and who has visited a place on the red list in the past 10 days will be denied entry.

Hong Kong is currently on the green list, but the new rules will still require people travelling to Britain from the city to have been fully vaccinated before arrival to be exempted from quarantine. They must also be tested for the coronavirus on their second day in the country.

However, Hong Kong’s current vaccination records do not include the recipient’s date of birth – a requirement under Britain’s new rules.

A Hong Kong government spokesman on Sunday said the Food and Health Bureau was working out the necessary arrangements for adding a date of birth field to the city’s vaccination records in order to comply with the British rules.