Coronavirus Hong Kong: quarantine-free travel to mainland China could resume in second half of year, ‘everything in order’ with stock market, finance chief says

• Paul Chan says the city hopes ‘to put the pandemic under control in the coming two to three months’, laying the groundwork for restarting quarantine-free cross-border travel
• Finance chief attributes a recent plunge in city’s stock market to correction in tech stocks and heightened risk-aversion sentiment