Hong Kong will not make vaccination compulsory for foreign domestic workers

Domestic helpers from the Philippines queue at a temporary Covid-19 testing centre in Hong Kong (Kin Cheung/AP)

Hong Kong officials have dropped a plan to mandate foreign domestic workers to be vaccinated against coronavirus amid international criticism that the move would be discriminatory.

Most of Hong Kong’s approximately 370,000 domestic workers come from Indonesia and the Philippines, both severely affected by the pandemic.