Coronavirus: Hong Kong 'to ease isolation rules' for infected travellers, with release on fifth day instead of seventh Hong Kong residents and incoming travellers infected with Covid-19 can be released on the fifth day of isolation, instead of the seventh, from Friday if they return negative results via rapid antigen tests on the fourth and fifth day, health officials have.
Overseas arrivals in Hong Kong could be spared hotel quarantine if they took daily nucleic tests for Covid-19 and the results were delivered in under eight hours, a top health expert suggested, as the city reported just under 3,000 new infections on Saturday (July 9). Professor Ivan Hung Fan-ngai, chief of the infectious diseases division of the University of Hong.