HK adds more quarantine hotels, adjusts flight rules

Workers clean an area for arriving passengers before they board buses to their quarantine hotels amid the COVID-19 pandemic, at Hong Kong International Airport in Hong Kong on March 21, 2022. - AFP

HONG KONG (China Daily/Asia News Network): The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government said on Saturday (March 26) that it was increasing the number of designated quarantine hotels (DQHs) to meet the demand of Hong Kong residents returning from overseas and foreign domestic workers.

In a statement issued on Saturday night, the government said it decided to convert 13 hotels, which have earlier been turned into community isolation facilities, back to DQHs to provide over 4,400 rooms starting April 1.