Coronavirus: Hong Kong should drop flight suspension rule as hotel quarantine measures are enough to reduce transmission risks, expert says | South China Morning Post

Hong Kong's flight suspension mechanism should be scrapped as quarantine measures are enough to reduce the risks of community spread of Covid-19, a medical expert has said, referring to a rule that temporarily bans specific airline routes into the city over imported coronavirus cases. Government pandemic adviser Professor David Hui Shu-cheong said on Sunday that even if Omicron outbreaks were still prevalent around the world, imported cases from other countries did not pose a serious threat locally. "I personally think the flight suspension mechanism can be lifted," he told a television programme. "As the epidemic here has subsided, we now…