{"id":42720,"date":"2022-03-21T18:51:12","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T09:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/21\/hong-kong-eases-covid-travel-rules"},"modified":"2022-03-21T18:51:12","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T09:51:12","slug":"hong-kong-eases-travel-rules-in-apparent-shift-from-zero-covid-policy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42720","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong eases travel rules in apparent shift from zero-Covid policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ban on flights from nine countries lifted for fully vaccinated residents and quarantine reduced to seven days<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong will lift a ban on flights from nine countries and reduce hotel quarantine alongside a \u201croadmap\u201d towards eased restrictions that suggest a departure from the territory\u2019s zero-Covid policy, its leader has announced.<\/p>\n<p>From 1 April, fully vaccinated Hong Kong residents who have received a negative PCR test will be allowed to enter on flights from the UK, Australia, Canada, France, India, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines and the US. Arrivals have to undergo seven days\u2019 hotel quarantine, down from 14 previously.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/21\/hong-kong-eases-covid-travel-rules\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ban on flights from nine countries lifted for fully vaccinated residents and quarantine reduced to seven daysHong Kong will lift a ban on flights from nine countries and reduce hotel quarantine alongside a \u201croadmap\u201d towards eased restrictions that sugg&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1066,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-hong-kong","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42724,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42720\/revisions\/42724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}