Hong Kong’s relaxation comes a week after it announced that people arriving in the Chinese territory from outside mainland China would or from Macau would no longer face COVID movement controls or be barred from certain venues.
While Hong Kong has effectively dismantled many of its stringent COVID rules in recent months, masks are still compulsory in public places unless exercising, and a vaccine pass is required to enter many venues. Lee will go on a four-day duty visit to Beijing on Wednesday where he said he would report on Hong Kong’s political and economic environment as well as the COVID situation.