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Hong Kong is finally reopening its doors to travellers, some two years after closing its borders on 25 March 2020.
From 1 May, non-residents will be allowed to enter Hong Kong beginning at midnight.
However, entry requirements for travellers into Hong Kong from 1 May
still stands in contrast with the region where borders have reopened
without lengthy quarantines and increasingly Covid tests.
Visitors
and residents flying into Hong Kong from overseas will still have to
undergo an antigen as well as PCR test on arrival, in addition to a
mandatory seven-day stay at a designated quarantine hotel as part of the
government’s “test and hold” programme.
The city authorities will be raising the threshold for suspending its
incoming flights with infected Covid-19 passengers from three to five
people. The length of time that flight routes will be banned will be
reduced from seven to five days.
Meanwhile, attractions in the city are also reopening. Hong Kong
Disneyland reopened on April, its first in months since the Omicron
outbreak hit the city.
Venues including gyms, theme parks, beauty parlours and movie theatres have also reopened after a four-month closure.