Coronavirus: room exists to further ease testing for Hong Kong, mainland China cross-border travellers, CY Leung says, while expert proposes review
- Leung, now a vice-chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, points to caseloads being kept at bay despite border reopening and festive break
- HKU medicine dean Dr Wallace Lau suggests review in fortnight
There is room for scaling back testing requirements for cross-border travellers between Hong Kong and mainland China, a former leader of the city has said, while a health expert has proposed reviewing the arrangement in two weeks.
Leung Chun-ying, now a vice-chairman of national advisory body the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, on Saturday told a radio programme that Covid-19 cases in Hong Kong had so far been kept at bay despite gatherings throughout the Lunar New Year period and the mainland reopening its border earlier this month.
“[A surge in infections] has not happened and today is already the seventh day [of Lunar New Year],” he noted.
Hong Kong’s daily caseload has hovered between 2,000 and 2,700 since Sunday – a drop of more than 10,000 recorded earlier in the month.
