It has been over a year of Covid-19 in Hong Kong and it can sometimes feel hard to remember what life was like before the pandemic. But, with the vaccine rollout currently forging ahead, there is hope that those times aren’t lost forever, and that we won’t be eternally stuck in a world of Zoom meetings, social distancing and face masks.
Luckily, we live in a city where we have multiple vaccine brands available to us and the process is quick and free of charge. The vaccines are exciting for us, and with summer approaching and low Covid-19 numbers being reported, it s given us all hope that Hong Kong is finally on the road to recovery. One day soon, we’ll find ourselves doing what we were doing just two years ago.
It takes spine to open a new hotel in the middle of a pandemic, but Aron Harilela wanted to seize the moment. “The decision to open The Hari Hong Kong after a year of protests and the pandemic represents a vote of confidence in Hong Kong’s future as a city,” the chairman and CEO of the Harilela Group said at the opening on December 12, when members of the Harilela family gathered for an intimate ribbon-cutting ceremony to open the hotel to the public.
Harilela was joined by his wife, Laura, and their two children, as well as members of his extended family, including David and Avisha Harilela and their daughter Divia, Shirley Hiranand, Reyna Harilela and friends Shaman and Hersha Chellaram.