China to reopen border with Hong Kong in early December: Report

File picture of people visiting the border of Hong Kong, with the skyline of China's Shenzhen in the background. China and Hong Kong are maintaining strict quarantine systems and a zero-tolerance approach to Covid-19. - AP

HONG KONG (Bloomberg): Travellers from Hong Kong will be allowed to enter mainland China without quarantine starting from the first week of December, the South China Morning Post reported late Thursday (Nov 18), citing two unidentified official sources from the mainland.

The number of visitors will initially be limited to "only a few hundred per day” and then rise to "a few thousand” in the following months once any teething problems are addressed and a testing and tracking system is put in place, the newspaper said, citing one of the officials.