Coronavirus: experts back quarantine-free travel to Hong Kong for fully vaccinated passengers from low-risk countries

Health experts have backed calls for fully vaccinated travellers from low-risk countries to be allowed quarantine-free entry into Hong Kong subject to conditions, while the city’s tourism lawmaker says a proposal to partially lift Covid-19 restrictions for visitors from mainland China will fail to revive the sector.

Officials are looking at expanding the “Return2HK” scheme – which welcomes back Hongkongers from Guangdong province or Macau without them undergoing mandatory 14-day quarantine – to other parts of the country, as well as offering the exemption to non-residents crossing the mainland border.