Hong Kong drops 'discriminatory' vaccine plan for foreign wo

Hong Kong drops ‘discriminatory’ vaccine plan for foreign workers
Al Jazeera English
© Domestic workers from the Philippines line up at the temporary testing centre for COVID-19, in Hong ...
Domestic workers from the Philippines line up at the temporary testing centre for COVID-19, in Hong Kong, on May 1, 2021 [Kin Cheung/ AP]
Hong Kong has scrapped a plan to make coronavirus vaccines mandatory for foreign domestic workers after the Philippines and labour groups criticised the proposal as discriminatory.
Still, Carrie Lam, Hong Kong’s chief executive, on Tuesday ordered another round of mandatory testing for all foreign domestic helpers as a “precaution” against more infectious variants of the coronavirus.

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