The latest news on when Hong Kong will lift its lockdown in 2020

Not long after the epidemic in the mainland ended, the epidemic in Hong Kong started again. Although it was not as scary as before, people in Hong Kong still took control measures very strictly. So the relevant government issued relevant announcements regarding entry into Hong Kong. When Hong Kong will unblock has become a question of public concern again. The details are as follows. The latest news on the unblocking of port customs ports

On the afternoon of July 22, Chen Zhaoshi announced that the compulsory quarantine arrangements for certain people arriving in Hong Kong will be extended to September 7; the effective period of the "gathering restriction order" will be extended to December 31 . In other words, the 14-day compulsory quarantine measure for people arriving from the mainland, Macau and Taiwan will be extended to September 7.

The Secretary for Food and Health of the Hong Kong SAR Government, Sophia Chan, announced a new round of epidemic prevention measures on July 22, requiring the mandatory wearing of masks in indoor public places and public transport interchanges. The measures will be implemented on July 22. It will take effect on March 23 and last for 14 days.

In addition, people arriving in Hong Kong who have been in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Philippines, South Africa and the United States in the past 14 days must provide a nucleic acid test result of the new coronavirus within 72 hours. Test results, as well as proof of hotel reservations upon arrival in Hong Kong, the regulations will take effect on July 29.

"Compulsory Quarantine Regulations for Certain Persons Arriving at Hong Kong"

All persons who have stayed in the Mainland for any period of time in the 14 days before the date of arrival in Hong Kong, regardless of nationality and travel documents , must undergo 14 days of compulsory quarantine. Immigration control measures

The Hong Kong SAR government stated that it is maintaining close communication with the relevant departments of the Guangdong Province and the Macao SAR government under the framework of joint prevention and control on mutual recognition of testing and mutual exemption from quarantine, as well as on the epidemic situation Subject to permission, we will consider relaxing the flow of people passing through the three places to a limited extent to facilitate people who need to travel between Guangdong, Hong Kong or Hong Kong and Macao.

The government needs the legal framework of Chapter 599C to implement the relevant transit arrangements, so it has gazetted an extension of the validity period of Chapter 599C by one month to September 7, 2020. The government will announce the relevant details when the latest results of the discussions on cross-border arrangements are available.

Official consultation contact information on Hong Kong’s quarantine policy

CHP hotline: 21251111/21251122 (operating from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.)

Director of Home Affairs Department hotline: 28351473 (operating from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.)

The latest Hong Kong immigration regulations

Persons entering from Hong Kong via the Shenzhen-Hong Kong port must hold a certificate authorized by the Hong Kong SAR government when entering the country A certificate of negative nucleic acid test result within 72 hours issued by a qualified testing institution and a 14-day centralized isolation medical observation. The quarantine order is extended again

At 18:24 on September 29, 2020, the Hong Kong government press release released the latest immigration control measures. The customs clearance news we have been waiting for for a long time has been extended by 2 months to 2020. December 31, 2020!

In other words, Hong Kong will not be able to clear customs until next year!

Recently, the number of confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia has decreased. Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor titled "Fighting the Epidemic in August, No Relaxation" The author points out that Hong Kong has contained the third wave of the new coronavirus epidemic. The government is taking advantage of this period to relax social distancing measures in stages to allow economic activities and normal citizens’ lives to gradually resume, alleviating the pressure on businesses and the public’s anti-epidemic fatigue. ; On the other hand, we will comprehensively review various measures to prevent and control the epidemic in order to improve our anti-epidemic capabilities in multiple aspects and be fully prepared to better respond to future epidemics.

Lam Cheng also mentioned that Hong Kong is an export-oriented economy. To recover economically, people-to-people exchanges with other places must be restored, and many citizens need to travel across the border for family, work and other reasons, especially round-trip travel. Mainland. She said that the technical development work of the "Hong Kong Health Code" system has been basically completed, and the government is also actively exploring "travel bubbles" with countries where the epidemic situation is relatively stable and has close economic and trade relations with Hong Kong, so as to allow citizens to travel as soon as possible.

However, the relevant arrangements could not be implemented due to the resurgence of the local epidemic. As the local epidemic situation gradually stabilizes, the SAR government will strive to restart discussions with relevant authorities to allow citizens to travel as soon as possible.