HK Re-Opening to Non-Residents
Nov 29, 2022, 7:24 pm
#361
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Dec 3, 2022, 1:08 am
#362
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Hypothetical question. Anyone attempted to enter HKG during a transit recently? Wonder what happens if one goes landside for a very short time (to re-check-in on separate tickets, meet a friend, etc), goes back airside (cleared exit immigration), and only then receives a positive test result SMS.
Dec 3, 2022, 3:53 am
#363
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Hypothetical question. Anyone attempted to enter HKG during a transit recently? Wonder what happens if one goes landside for a very short time (to re-check-in on separate tickets, meet a friend, etc), goes back airside (cleared exit immigration), and only then receives a positive test result SMS.
Dec 3, 2022, 7:59 am
#364
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Hypothetical question. Anyone attempted to enter HKG during a transit recently? Wonder what happens if one goes landside for a very short time (to re-check-in on separate tickets, meet a friend, etc), goes back airside (cleared exit immigration), and only then receives a positive test result SMS.
Dec 5, 2022, 4:12 am
#365
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Hypothetical question. Anyone attempted to enter HKG during a transit recently? Wonder what happens if one goes landside for a very short time (to re-check-in on separate tickets, meet a friend, etc), goes back airside (cleared exit immigration), and only then receives a positive test result SMS.
Dec 5, 2022, 12:58 pm
#366
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Hypothetical question. Anyone attempted to enter HKG during a transit recently? Wonder what happens if one goes landside for a very short time (to re-check-in on separate tickets, meet a friend, etc), goes back airside (cleared exit immigration), and only then receives a positive test result SMS.
Dec 5, 2022, 1:59 pm
#367
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The latest data is 2 hours for the airport test result.
Dec 6, 2022, 7:17 am
#368
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Yes, two hours and you also get the result by email.
Reading all the government rules, I couldn't figure out what happens when you already have LHS installed. Answer is, you don't have to install anything again. Your existing app will automatically turn amber (if you tested neg).
Reading all the government rules, I couldn't figure out what happens when you already have LHS installed. Answer is, you don't have to install anything again. Your existing app will automatically turn amber (if you tested neg).
Dec 7, 2022, 9:28 pm
#369
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Hypothetical question. Anyone attempted to enter HKG during a transit recently? Wonder what happens if one goes landside for a very short time (to re-check-in on separate tickets, meet a friend, etc), goes back airside (cleared exit immigration), and only then receives a positive test result SMS.
Pleading ignorance won't likely get you anywhere either, because if the government really wants to make an example out of it, they'll grab all the security cam footage in the airport to prove you were playing on your phone, and your phone was picking up signals from the local network so you should have seen the positive SMS and self report to not fly even after crossing immigration and arriving airside.
Last edited by hkskyline; Dec 7, 2022 at 9:33 pm
Dec 8, 2022, 2:21 am
#370
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With the latest rejiggering of the rules, it'll be a minimum five days' quarantine if you test positive, down from seven.
Note that if you do leave Hong Kong before your seven-day surveillance period is finished, you have to report your departure.
Note that if you do leave Hong Kong before your seven-day surveillance period is finished, you have to report your departure.
Dec 9, 2022, 2:40 pm
#371
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IMHO the key to exit is whether you have cleared exit immigration before the isolation order is issued, which will be against your HKID or travel document used for entry. For visitors one must use the same travel documents in and out.
Dec 12, 2022, 5:09 am
#373
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Legally, until the plane takes off, you can be deplaned and detained. This has happened to people with outstanding legal proceedings against them that include "must stay in HK".
The exit immigration system will not let one depart with an outstanding isolation order issued.
IMHO if you are out of exit immigration, I doubt that they will come looking for you at the departure restricted area, BUT HK has not been tolerant of repeat offenders.
Dec 13, 2022, 4:14 am
#374
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HK will be start 0+0 tomorrow, but I have read in the news that passengers will need to have a negative RAT within 24hrs of taking the flight to HK, then will need to undergo PCR test upon arrival.
With the PCR test on arrival, I think it’s still risky for tourists. So what happens when a passenger tested positive in thr PCR?
With the PCR test on arrival, I think it’s still risky for tourists. So what happens when a passenger tested positive in thr PCR?
Dec 13, 2022, 4:33 am
#375
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HK will be start 0+0 tomorrow, but I have read in the news that passengers will need to have a negative RAT within 24hrs of taking the flight to HK, then will need to undergo PCR test upon arrival.
With the PCR test on arrival, I think it’s still risky for tourists. So what happens when a passenger tested positive in thr PCR?
With the PCR test on arrival, I think it’s still risky for tourists. So what happens when a passenger tested positive in thr PCR?
Tourists will still need
- one pre-departure RAT
- one on-arrival PCR (day 0)
- one extra PCR (day 2)
- daily self administered RATs from day 1 to 5