May 12, 2021
Domestic helpers gather in Central on their day off on Sunday.
South China Morning Post
Hong Kong s domestic workers say the government is unfairly forcing them to take a Covid-19 vaccine or else face the risk of undergoing repeated mandatory testing after authorities suddenly ordered them to be screened again.
Although Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet Ngor revealed on Tuesday (May 11) she was dropping her plan to require that the city s roughly 370,000 helpers be inoculated, she said they must be tested for a second time by the end of the month, despite a first round uncovering just three coronavirus cases.
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An employers group says people are worried about migrant workers bringing mutated strains of the coronavirus into Hong Kong. File photo: RTHK The Hong Kong Employers of Overseas Domestic Helpers Association says the government s two-week ban on arrivals from the Philippines has come as a relief to many people who are concerned about the Covid-19 situation in the country.
The discovery of a mutant strain of the virus in the community in Hong Kong has led to the SAR government banning flights from the Philippines, India and Pakistan. The government says multiple arrivals from the three countries have also had the same mutated form of the virus.