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Government tightens quarantine requirements for persons arriving from UK and adjusts testing requirement for boarding from high-risk places
The Government announced today (June 24) that the quarantine requirements for persons arriving from the United Kingdom (UK) will be tightened from June 28, while testing requirement for boarding flights from high-risk places will be adjusted from June 26.
In response to the severe worsening of epidemic situation in the UK at the end of last year, Hong Kong specified the UK as an extremely high-risk place at the end of December last year and restricted people who had stayed in the UK from travelling to Hong Kong. Subsequently, as the UK adopted a series of anti-epidemic measures and large-scale vaccination, their local epidemic situation had greatly improved after reaching its peak in January this year. Taking into account the continued easing of the epidemic situation in the UK earlier, the Government gradually relaxed the restrictions in April and May on people who had stayed in the UK, including allowing Hong Kong residents situated in the UK to return to Hong Kong via designated flights in April, announcing on May 4 the lowering of the specification of the UK to a very high-risk Group A2 specified place from May 7 onwards, and announcing on May 31 the lowering of the specification of the UK to a high-risk Group B specified place from June 4 onwards.