Hong Kong
Starting from today, the quarantine period for confirmed patients and close contacts in Hong Kong will be shortened to five days.
The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region announced yesterday (8th) that the number of days for patients with positive test cases in novel coronavirus to complete isolation and close contacts to complete quarantine has been reduced to five days, and relevant measures will take effect today.
Arrivals are required to take rapid antigen tests every day after arrival in Hong Kong until the fifth day after arrival, and the existing social distance measures in Hong Kong will remain unchanged.
Macao
Macao canceled the "landing inspection" for immigrants and the measures of nucleic acid detection and rapid antigen detection after entry.
The novel coronavirus Infection Response Coordination Center of the Macao SAR Government announced that the measures of landing nucleic acid detection, nucleic acid detection after entry and rapid antigen detection will be cancelled from 0: 00 on February 9, 2022.
Details of the adjusted epidemic prevention measures are as follows:
1. Entry measures for persons who have not lived in high-risk areas in the Mainland of China on the same day or in the past five days:
(1) If you go directly to Macau from the mainland of China (except Zhuhai, Guangdong), you must have a negative nucleic acid test certificate within 48 hours after the sampling date when boarding the plane and boarding the ship;
(2) When going to Macau via Zhuhai City, Guangdong Province, you must have a negative nucleic acid test certificate within 24 hours after the sampling date.
Second, from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China, Taiwan Province and foreign countries who entered Macao and had a history of living in high-risk areas in China on the same day or in the past five days, the measures after medical observation were changed from the original three-day Macao health code to a three-day yellow code, and the nucleic acid test was carried out at the last 1 day, and the result was negative and then changed to a green code.