The Government today announced that one more hotel will be added to the eighth cycle of the Designated Quarantine Hotel Scheme.

The additional hotel is Novotel Century Hong Kong in Wan Chai. Separately, Hong Kong Ocean Park Marriott Hotel in Wong Chuk Hang will provide extra hotel rooms.

The two hotels will start accepting room bookings from tomorrow, providing about 700 additional rooms.

Coupled with the hotel announced today, there will be 68 quarantine hotels altogether under the scheme’s eighth cycle, providing around 26,200 rooms.