Hong Kong ends last COVID curbs in bid to revive finance hub

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There will be no cap on the number of people who can gather in public, and the vaccine pass for entry to a raft of venues will also be scrapped

The changes are based on a high immunity level in the city, sufficient medicine, experience of handling COVID among health-care workers, an improved emergency response system and better awareness among residents, Lee said. “The above mentioned changes are strongly pushing Hong Kong to recover.”

The world’s second-biggest economy is set to emerge from almost three years of self-imposed global isolation on Jan. 8 and is also set to resume issuing Hong Kong travel permits and reopen express checkpoints on the border. The South China Morning Post reported, citing people it didn’t identify, that Hong Kong’s border with the mainland will reopen on Jan. 10 at the earliest, with priority for travel to the city given to those with business and family needs.

Other parts of the world are more cautious about welcoming visitors from mainland China, where the country’s health regulator estimated nearly 37 million people may have been infected in a single day last week as the rapid dismantling of Covid Zero sparked a wave of infections.Article content Hong Kong is also facing its own flareup, with local infections rising and health officials warning about the strain being put on the health-care system from both Covid and influenza. The city reported over 18,000 Covid cases a day during the Christmas period, more than doubling from a month ago, and the number of patients in critical and serious condition is rising.Article content

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It’s not so much the ‘Covid curbs’ as the CPC’s freedom curbs that killed it. Oppression sucks, sometimes even for bankers. 🤷🏻‍♂️

It’s about time

It will never be revived back to what it once was after the illegal takeover by China & how they handle the citizens that made a shitty rock great

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