Coronavirus testing frequency to jump for Hong Kong’s airport, quarantine hotel workers – with daily screenings for the unvaccinated


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Employees of Hong Kong International Airport, workers at quarantine hotels and those who drive travellers between the two will all soon be tested for Covid-19 more regularly, the Post has learned, with daily screenings for the unvaccinated. The new testing regime, set to come into effect within the next week, is the latest attempt to tighten border-control measures as the city attempts to satisfy Beijing’s concerns over reopening the border between Hong Kong and mainland China. The new measures come hard on the heels of an airport cargo handler recently emerging as the first local, untraceable coronavirus case in nearly...