Hong Kong authorities will start carrying out inspections and enforcement actions at premises where visitors must enter using a vaccine pass showing they have received three Covid-19 shots.
minister vaughan gething says the plans are being carefully managed. from next week, the requirements to use a covid 19 pass will be removed from the 18th of february. the international covid 19 pass will still be required for travel of course. but domestically, it won t be a requirement. on the 28th of february, the requirement to wearfacemasks will go apart from in retail, health and social care settings and public transport. and we ll then look at our next review, whether the remaining protections can safely be removed from the end of march. so we have got a pathway, so, hopefully, seeing the end of covid, seeing it properly in the rear view mirror. and it is still about people moving from a place where the law requires people to do things to move into guidance and asking people to exercisejudgment. now, with all of these things, there is, of course, a balance. but because of our relatively stable public health position, because we have seen
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