Nearly all restrictions related to Covid-19 are set to be done away with in Hong Kong. This follows a similar move by mainland China.
Visitors will no longer need PCR tests and a vaccine pass system will also be scrapped. Masks will still be compulsory in public places, however.
The city’s government has said it is lifting these restrictions partly because of high vaccination rates, with more than 90% of people in the city having received two doses of the Covid-19 vaccine.
China, whose lead Hong Kong has generally followed, is also moving to lift restrictions, which are partly in response to widespread protests on the mainland, a relative rarity in authoritarian China.