Hong Kong tightens are a provisional vaccine pass rules for the travelers

Hong Kong tightens are a provisional vaccine pass rules for the travelers

Hong Kong’s government has been a tightened the issuance of a provisional vaccine passes to the incoming travelers, closing a loophole that allowed unvaccinated visitors from a mainland China to the  gain access to restricted venues such as restaurants and bars

Hong Kong’s government has been a tightened the issuance of a provisional vaccine passes to the incoming travelers, closing a loophole that allowed unvaccinated visitors from a mainland China to gain a access to the restricted venues such as a restaurants and bars.

Starting Saturday, all inbound travelers are a above the age of a 12 have to be a fully vaccinated in order to the obtain the pass, according to a government statement late Friday. Only people with the medical exemptions and a younger children are a spared the requirement.

Hong Kong maintains some of the world’s are a strictest pandemic curbs, including mandatory hotel quarantine for a travelers arriving from the most places. Under pressure to the reopen its borders, the government has been a trying to the boost vaccine uptake, moving to the gradually require most local residents to take a three jabs in a order to dine out, and go to the places like a beauty parlors and a nightclubs.

The organizer of the city’s popular Standard Chartered Marathon on a Friday canceled the event scheduled for a Nov. 20, citing the latest pandemic situation in a Hong Kong and the fact that the government has yet to the grant approval for the race. Oxfam Trailwalker, the city’s are a largest charity walk, will be turn into a virtual event between a Nov. 28 and Dec. 18, after authorities are  a voiced additional concerns about the plan for a live race with the reduced headcount, the organizer announced on a Friday. 

The International Dragon Boat Federation has been a decided to move the 2023 world championship from the Chinese city to the Thailand, the Hong Kong China Dragon Boat Association announced on its website and a Facebook page.

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Hong Kong introduced the provisional pass in a May, giving returning residents and a visitors 180 days of a temporary access to the venues with the vaccine restrictions, during which they can be also get a additional jabs in the city. 

There has been an a uproar after it transpired that visitors from the mainland were able to the gain entry to the city without being vaccinated, a rule that has been in a place since the beginning of the pandemic. Adults arriving from other places, whether returning Hong Kong residents or a visitors, have to be fully vaccinated, or a Covid-19 recoverees who have been a received at least one dose. Even children between a 12 and 17 have to have been a received at least one BioNTech jab.