Starting Wednesday, Hong Kong will allow travelers who test negative to move around freely, while residents won't be required to scan the 'Leave Home Safe' app, as the city joins mainland China in a broader push toward easing restrictions.
in September, moving to a “0+3” rule, which meant that arrivals could not step into restaurants, bars or other venues for three days while they performed medical monitoring but were otherwise free to move around.
Lee said the decision to ease that rule was made after an analysis of infection risks by the city’s health officials. The infection risk from “imported cases is actually lower than risk of added local infections within a community,” he said at a news conference, through an interpreter.
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