Hong Kong scraps mandatory vaccines for foreign domestic workers after diplomatic tussle with Philippines

Filipino migrant workers lining up at the temporary testing center for Covid-19, in Hong Kong on May 1, 2021. Hong Kong on Tuesday scrapped a plan to make coronavirus vaccines mandatory for foreign domestic workers after the proposal sparked an outcry and a diplomatic tussle with the Philippines. - AP

HONG KONG, May 11 (AFP): Hong Kong on Tuesday scrapped a plan to make coronavirus vaccines mandatory for foreign domestic workers after the proposal sparked an outcry and a diplomatic tussle with the Philippines.

Health officials planned to roll out mandatory inoculations for the 370,000 domestic workers in the city, mostly poorly paid women from the Philippines and Indonesia.