Hong Kong Plans to Ease Covid Flight-Ban Criteria, Duration
- Proposal to lift suspension threshold to five from three cases
- Business, expats have been strong critics of Hong Kong’s curbs
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Hong Kong is considering easing rules on suspending flights if they bring in a certain number of Covid-19 cases, amid pressure on the financial hub to loosen one of the world’s strictest pandemic travel regimes.
Under the plan, first reported by the South China Morning Post, the threshold for triggering the suspension of a flight will be lifted to five or more cases from the current three, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg News.