Coronavirus: home quarantine for arrivals into Hong Kong with 3 vaccine jabs? Government health adviser suggests scheme amid optimism over falling caseloads


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Arrivals into Hong Kong who have received three doses of a Covid-19 vaccine should be allowed to quarantine at home, a government health adviser has said while projecting daily infection caseloads to drop to two digits in about a fortnight. Professor Ivan Hung Fan-ngai, a top infectious disease expert and convenor of a government vaccine committee, suggested on Saturday that travellers with three jabs or two with a previous infection record be allowed to isolate at home with an electronic tracking device upon a negative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test at the airport. Under current rules, such arrivals have to...