Hong Kong’s new health chief has said conditional quarantine-free travel could be allowed by November in time for a global bankers’ summit to be held in the city, the South China Morning Post reported Wednesday.
The city doesn’t need to follow mainland China’s tough COVID-19 policies because it enjoys some degree of freedom under the "one country, two systems" principle, Secretary for Health Lo Chung-mau said in an interview with the newspaper.
"Is nothing required any more? I think that would be a bit tough,” Lo said in the interview. "At least PCR testing is needed. But does quarantine have to be confined to a fixed location?”