{"id":305740,"date":"2023-01-06T08:45:07","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T03:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=305740"},"modified":"2023-01-06T08:45:07","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T03:45:07","slug":"china-to-open-border-with-hong-kong-for-first-time-in-3-years-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/china-to-open-border-with-hong-kong-for-first-time-in-3-years-on-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"China to open border with Hong Kong for first time in 3 years on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong followed China\u2019s tough zero-COVID policy until the middle of 2022<br \/>\n HONG KONG<br \/>\nChina will reopen the border with its special administrative region of Hong Kong on Sunday for the first time in three years, as it accelerates the unwinding of stringent COVID rules that have battered its economic growth.<br \/>\nThe opening will bring the resumption of quarantine-free travel between the financial hub and the mainland although it would be done in a \u201cgradual and orderly\u201d way, China\u2019s Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office said in a notice on Thursday.<br \/>\nHong Kong closely followed China\u2019s tough zero-COVID policy until the middle of 2022 when it began to ease some of restrictions.<br \/>\nThe former British colony dropped all of its COVID rules in December but masks remain mandatory except while exercising.<br \/>\nHong Kong and China have trailed most of the world in easing stringent COVID precautions and the border reopening was postponed several times over the past year because of COVID outbreaks in one or the other.<br \/>\nPeople in Hong Kong have only been able to reach the mainland via the city\u2019s airport or just two check-points, one at Shenzhen Bay and the other via the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge.<br \/>\nMost other border points including the West Kowloon high speed rail terminus have been closed since early 2020.<br \/>\nBefore the coronavirus emerged in China in late 2019, there were more than 236 million passenger trips over their border a year, government data showed.<br \/>\nChina will no longer require people to present COVID tests upon arrival in the mainland from Hong Kong, while China will issue special tourism and business visas for mainland residents to visit Hong Kong from Jan. 8, the office said. China will also increase flights between the mainland, Hong Kong and Macau, it said.<br \/>\nHong Kong residents have flocked to clinics to get vaccinated against COVID ahead of the border reopening, which some fear could bring a surge in both infections and demand for mRNA vaccines that are not widely available in the mainland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong followed China\u2019s tough zero-COVID policy until the middle of 2022 HONG KONG China will reopen the border with its special administrative region of Hong Kong on Sunday for the first time in three years, as it accelerates the unwinding of stringent COVID rules that have battered its economic growth. 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