Health Minister Mark Butler attributes WHO for ignoring Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly’s advice to not screen Chinese travellers for COVID-19. Follow updates here.
China had kept its borders all but shut for three years and Hong Kong itself had maintained some of the world’s strictest curbs until the second half of last year.
Tourists will be offered free flights to Hong Kong in a bid to drive up visitor numbers, which have fallen by tens of millions a year since the pandemic. 500,000 tickets worth £225m will be given away.
Professor Lo Chung-mau, who will be new secretary for health on July 1, reveals ‘5+2’ option among possibilities being considered to help shorten quarantine
Liaison office held series of closed-door individual meetings with city’s major foreign business chambers to ‘directly’ gauge their views on issues, sources say.