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Coronavirus: Hong Kong government could fully resume services next week
- All departments told to come up with plans to bring civil servants back to the office, source says
- Administration also discussing restrictions on travellers going across the border with mainland Chinese counterparts, another insider says
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All Hong Kong government departments will have to submit plans on fully resuming services next week, the Post has learned, after the city also reported zero new Covid-19 infections for a second straight day.
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The prospect of most of the city’s 180,000 civil servants heading back to office after more than a month working from home comes as the government is in discussions with its mainland Chinese counterparts on easing cross-border travel restrictions.
Separate sources confirmed the back-to-work planning and border-control talks, and revealed that the Executive Council on Tuesday would discuss whether to extend the 14-day quarantine rule for arrivals from mainland China set to expire on May 7.
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On Monday, the city had no new coronavirus cases to report for the fourth time in eight days. The total number of infections remained at 1,037, with four related deaths.
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