Inbound to Hong Kong COVID-19 Quarantine & Restrictions
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Since many ports of origin are not running daily flights and the passenger load varies, the proper answer would be it depends.
Remember that CX is giving information to guide and help their arriving travellers. They do not make the law.
[Sarcasm/ON]
Because BA31 arrives at the maybe yes maybe no timeslot it is now possible to place a bet with the bookies whether it is the hotel or stay at the airport.
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*Depending on the number of passengers, people arriving in the early afternoon may be asked to wait in the Midfield Concourse rather than the hotel
Which is wanted happened to the BA31 flight.
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https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/...-india-charter
Hong Kong bans Air India to operate flights to HKG for two weeks, after Hong Kong detected 11 confirmed cases from one flight from New Delhi.
The Cap. 599H authorized Secretary for Food and Health to ask passengers from specific regions to have negative test reports within 72 hours before departure. Even with this requirement, 11 passengers from India are infected with COVID-19. Now the government invokes another article in Cap. 599H to ban flights from India operated by Air India.
Hong Kong bans Air India to operate flights to HKG for two weeks, after Hong Kong detected 11 confirmed cases from one flight from New Delhi.
The Cap. 599H authorized Secretary for Food and Health to ask passengers from specific regions to have negative test reports within 72 hours before departure. Even with this requirement, 11 passengers from India are infected with COVID-19. Now the government invokes another article in Cap. 599H to ban flights from India operated by Air India.
CAD bans KA from operating KA734 KUL-HKG as passenger service to 3Oct, after it brought back 5 transfer pax from India via KUL on 18Sep ???5???????????????????10?3??????????on.cc??
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Hong Kong can't bill itself as being an international city and have such onerous (and ridiculous) regulations for flying into the city. If I had a family emergency in the US, it would be a huge pain to come back - and if taken to an extreme - it would make me question why I should bother coming back.
Being an international city is not a priority right now; still, we’re still taking in 2X-3X what Australia as a country is taking in per day.
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We could do one of two things:
- we might as well dismiss testing on departure, strictly enforce testing on arrival and accept the risk to travellers being cross-infected during their journey (Coronavirus / COVID-19 : general fact-based reporting ), or
- we prohibit HK residents reentering HK who have been in India 14 days prior to arrival, meaning they have to find some third country to house them for quarantine, some country like how Thailand housed Chinese students before they were cleared to proceed to Australia in February (Australia prohibited student visa entry in March anyway).
--- this move will be JRed. I am assuming DH can make the case that public health objectives override a HK (Permanent) Resident's right to return before CFI or higher courts.
Restricting saleable seats like AU/NZ is not feasible for HK as shown in this case HK Residents in India can legitimately transit other countries (<14 days) on their way here.
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Well is it still meaningful to demand this paperwork? We know that the US has been taking the paperwork seriously, to the extent some travellers are no longer allowed to travel. But India (there may be other countries, but India really seems to be the country repeatedly caught out here) seem to take this as a paper-filling exercise without responsibility to HK, so we are still reliant on our tests to catch infected resident arrivals from India.
We could do one of two things:
- we might as well dismiss testing on departure, strictly enforce testing on arrival and accept the risk to travellers being cross-infected during their journey (Coronavirus / COVID-19 : general fact-based reporting ), or
- we prohibit HK residents reentering HK who have been in India 14 days prior to arrival, meaning they have to find some third country to house them for quarantine, some country like how Thailand housed Chinese students before they were cleared to proceed to Australia in February (Australia prohibited student visa entry in March anyway).
--- this move will be JRed. I am assuming DH can make the case that public health objectives override a HK (Permanent) Resident's right to return before CFI or higher courts.
Restricting saleable seats like AU/NZ is not feasible for HK as shown in this case HK Residents in India can legitimately transit other countries (<14 days) on their way here.
We could do one of two things:
- we might as well dismiss testing on departure, strictly enforce testing on arrival and accept the risk to travellers being cross-infected during their journey (Coronavirus / COVID-19 : general fact-based reporting ), or
- we prohibit HK residents reentering HK who have been in India 14 days prior to arrival, meaning they have to find some third country to house them for quarantine, some country like how Thailand housed Chinese students before they were cleared to proceed to Australia in February (Australia prohibited student visa entry in March anyway).
--- this move will be JRed. I am assuming DH can make the case that public health objectives override a HK (Permanent) Resident's right to return before CFI or higher courts.
Restricting saleable seats like AU/NZ is not feasible for HK as shown in this case HK Residents in India can legitimately transit other countries (<14 days) on their way here.
similar in Singapore many people are frustrated on the number of imported cases from India.
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Apart from KA734 operated by Cathay Dragon, AI310 operated by Air India also got banned for 14 days by Hong Kong government. AI310 carried 6 infected passengers from New Delhi on September 18. This should be the second time that Air India gets banned by the public health authority of Hong Kong.
Also by RTHK, it seems that the government gives a clear guidance on a flight ban: if the passenger flight carried 5 or more infected passengers, or two consecutive flights, operated by the same airline and from same origin, carried 3 or more infected passengers, the related passenger flight will be suspended for 14 days.
https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/ch/compone...abChangeable=0
Also by RTHK, it seems that the government gives a clear guidance on a flight ban: if the passenger flight carried 5 or more infected passengers, or two consecutive flights, operated by the same airline and from same origin, carried 3 or more infected passengers, the related passenger flight will be suspended for 14 days.
https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/ch/compone...abChangeable=0
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I think the recent arrivals from India are not work visa holders (still "HK Resident" if the visa is >180 days) because the latter is getting difficult to obtain.
But remember there has been and still are many Hong Kong Permanent Residents of Indian origin - many whose ancestors obtained Permanent Residency during the colonial period - who still have family in India and still need to tend to family and commute.
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It is a well know fact in the HK social media groups of S out Asians that DEL KUL > KUL HKG is away to get to HK due to lack of scheduled flights from India direct.
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If the test can be properly carried out on the Indian end, I would not have to comment further. It's with the failure of the test that makes us think about whether to forget about pre-arrival testing or go harder https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/cath...l#post32688141
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Delhi: Doctor held for issuing fake Covid-19 certificates - delhi news - Hindustan Times - https://www.hindustantimes.com/delhi...dUfqglyrK.html
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https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/127586...virus/、
It seems that one BA crew member cannot tell the difference between 'quarantine' and 'staycation'.
It seems that one BA crew member cannot tell the difference between 'quarantine' and 'staycation'.
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https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/127586...virus/、 It seems that one BA crew member cannot tell the difference between 'quarantine' and 'staycation'.
I was amazed when in the UK a few weeks ago at how many people ignored rules and advice regarding social distancing, masks on transport and in public areas, parties, then criticise the UK government for blaming them for their own poor behaviour. Crazy