3 Office workers scan a Safe Entry QR code to enter a mall in Singapore on Monday. (Reuters photo)
HONG KONG: Hong Kong will launch its quarantine-free travel bubble with Singapore as scheduled on May 26 despite sporadic local coronavirus infections, the city s commerce minister has said.
Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development Edward Yau Tang-wah offered the reassurance as Hong Kong confirmed two new Covid-19 cases on Wednesday.
One involved a domestic helper arriving from the Philippines and the other a 42-year-old man linked to a local cluster of variant infections sparked by a 30-year-old engineer from Dubai.
Yau said the city s seven-day moving average of unlinked local cases was lower than one, while Singapore s was between 1.6 and 1.8.
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