Hong Kong cuts Covid hotel quarantine for arrivals to three days

People wearing face masks walk along a side street in Mongkok, a shopping district of Hong Kong, Monday, Aug. 8, 2022. Hong Kong will reduce the mandatory hotel quarantine for overseas arrivals to three days from a week, the city’s leader said on Monday (Kin Cheung/AP/PA)

Hong Kong will reduce the mandatory hotel quarantine for overseas arrivals to three days from a week, the city’s leader has announced.

The southern Chinese city remains one of the few places in the world, together with mainland China, to require a quarantine to guard against travellers spreading Covid-19 to the local population.