Pilots made to wear trackers as Hong Kong boosts Covid rules

The tightened rules will mainly impact Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd, already subject to twin government investigations into the role it played in staff breaches that saw two infected cabin crew flout Covid regulations last December by dining out. - Bloomberg

HONG KONG (Bloomberg): Hong Kong is further tightening quarantine rules for airline staff, with cargo pilots isolating at home to be tracked with electronic monitoring bracelets and crew on passenger planes who have been in countries with high levels of the virus made to quarantine for 14 days.

The updated rules, set out in a document seen by Bloomberg News, will come into effect Wednesday. The strengthened protocols for turnaround cargo pilots and cargo crew, the last remaining category of flight staff to not require hotel quarantine, close a loophole that allowed some to shirk stay-at-home orders because there was no monitoring or checking in place.