“The hotel’s seven-day quarantine arrangement will change to three days in hotel quarantine, plus four days of home medical monitoring,” chief executive John Lee said at a press conference on Monday. After completing hotel quarantine, travelers can stay at home or in a hotel for the four days of surveillance. During that time people will be able to leave their place of residence, but cannot enter “places where there is active control of vaccination records,” Li said in Cantonese. This includes bars, pubs, gyms and beauty salons. People are also not allowed to visit nursing homes, schools and certain medical facilities during the surveillance period. “They can’t participate in activities where masks have to come off,” Lee added. If they test negative on a rapid antigen test, they can take public transportation, go to work and enter malls, he said. “We need to strike a balance between the level of risk as well as our economic activity. Where risks can be controlled, we want to maintain maximum movement of people and maintain Hong Kong’s competitiveness,” Lee said.
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