Hong Kong Imposes 21 Day Quarantine for Visitor and Adding South Africa to Banned List
Hong Kong has extended a compulsory quarantine of seven extra days to 21 days in total for all visitors arriving from outside China on Friday, 25 December as a step to prevent a new variant of the Covid-19 virus from spreading. The authorities are also banning people who have stayed in South Africa in the past 21 days from boarding into Hong Kong.
Currently, Hong Kong has already banned flights from the United Kingdom from Monday onwards as two students who arrived back from the UK were likely to be infected with the new virus from the UK. On Friday, the authorities has stated that people who have stayed in places outside China during the 21 days before their arrival back in Hong Kong will have to undergo 21 days of compulsory quarantine in designated quarantine hotels, as a part of the government needs to introduce the absolute measures immediately so that no more cases would slip through the net especially during this year-end peak holiday season.
