Hong Kong to relax cross border travel when COVID-19 stabilizes


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HONG KONG -- The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government is planning to introduce "health code" system that allows quarantine-free travel among Hong Kong, Guangdong province and Macao SAR when Hong Kong's COVID-19 outbreak situation stabilizes. Matthew Cheung, chief secretary for administration of the HKSAR government, said on Sunday in his blog that Hong Kong is discussing with the mainland and Macao to allow holders of certifications of negative result of the nucleic acid test on COVID-19 to be exempted from compulsory quarantine on arrival in the three places under the "health code" system. This arrangement, however, will only...