Calls grow louder for HK to scrap 'unreasonable' hotel quarantine for arrivals

People are increasingly questioning the necessity of the hotel quarantines. - AFP

HONG KONG (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Calls are growing for Hong Kong to scrap its requirement for all arrivals in the city to undergo a seven-day hotel quarantine.

The international financial hub is "obviously falling behind" as the rest of the world reopens from more than two years of the coronavirus pandemic, Cathay Pacific chairman Patrick Healy warned at the flagship airline's annual general meeting on Wednesday (May 11).