Полное открытие сухопутной границы между Гонконгом и материковым Китаем для вакцинированных лиц ожидается не позднее июня следующего года, сообщает во вторник... РИА Новости, 09.11.2021

Hong Kong ordered 120 school students into quarantine and recommended that an international school shut down after exposure to the family of a Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. pilot who tested positive for Covid-19.

Queues formed at some vaccination centres on Thursday morning as people turned up to get a coronavirus booster jab. This came as Hong Kong started giving a third dose of vaccine to people over 60 and priority groups, such as those with compromised immune systems and people who face a higher risk of infection at their workplace. At a vaccination centre in Kowloon Tong, an aircrew member said she would like to have a higher level of protection against Covid-19. “I need it for my job because I work for the airlines. That’s why I decided to come and get the third dose,” she said. A man said he took the booster jab as he would be going on a trip outside Hong Kong. “I’ve passed my six months. I’m going to fly out next month on a trip, so better to be kept up on my antibodies,” he said. A man surnamed Poon said he decided to switch to BioNTech after getting two shots of Sinovac previously. “Because the protection rate for Sinovac is lower according to the newspapers, but for BioNTech it will be higher, so I am getting…

Good luck eating at the most popular spots before February 2022. Hong Kong’s unyielding Covid-zero policy has kept the coronavirus at bay since early summer. That’s allowed room for more pedestrian concerns, namely the struggle to make a restaurant reservation. By early October, the Chairman, which was named the 2021 best restaurant in Asia and also landed in the top 10 on the World’s 50 Best list, was booked through the end of the year. It stopped taking reservations for January, too. Louise, a well-regarded…