Countries are India, U.S., U.K., Australia, Canada, France, Pakistan and the Philippines Hong Kong on Wednesday flights from India and seven other countries for two weeks, part of the raft of new steps to overcome the spread of Omicron variants.
While most of the 114 Omicron Hong Kong cases have been imported, the Special Administrative Region (SAR) is currently fighting against its first local deployment in months Health Authority said on Wednesday, explaining new restrictions including a ban on eating at the restaurant after 6pm and closing the fitness center and bar, that they were afraid of community transmission because they could not fully determine the case spread route.
The local outbreak source was identified as two Cathay Pacific airline crew, which according to the authorities had violated the isolation protocol As part of the measures, trippers and breakouts from eight countries have been barred for two weeks. The countries are India,U.S.,U.K., Australia, Canada, France, Pakistan and Philippines.
The new further transmittable variants have challenged the “ zero COVID” policy in place in both Hong Kong and the Chinese landmass, which has been dealing with a recent spread of cases in several metropolises, most specially in Xian The strategy is rested on continued restrictions on transnational trip including obligatory counterblockade for all advents, mass testing as well as quarantining of close connections to insure clusters are controlled and cases are brought to zero.
