Measures for UK travellers set

September 24, 2020

The Government will gazette the latest specifications today to impose conditions on travellers who visited the United Kingdom within 14 days before arriving in Hong Kong to reduce the number of imported COVID-19 cases.

 

The specifications under the Prevention & Control of Disease (Regulation of Cross-boundary Conveyances & Travellers) Regulation (Cap 599H) were made in view of the developments of the epidemic situation worldwide and in Hong Kong.

 

The Government had earlier introduced Cap 599H to impose testing and quarantine conditions on travellers coming to Hong Kong from very high-risk places.

 

The Secretary for Food & Health previously published in the gazette specifications on the relevant measures applicable to Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, South Africa and the US.

 

New specifications will be gazetted to maintain the conditions imposed and to include the UK as a specified place with effect from October 1.

 

Travellers who have stayed in the specified places 14 days before arriving in Hong Kong must provide documents showing they tested negative for COVID-19 and their reservation for a hotel in Hong Kong.

 

The operator of the aircraft must submit to the Department of Health before the aircraft arrives at Hong Kong a document confirming that each traveller has produced proof that relevant conditions are met.

 

An operator who fails to comply with the requirement to provide information, or knowingly or recklessly provides any information that is false or misleading, is liable to a fine of $50,000 and imprisonment for six months.

 

Any traveller coming to Hong Kong who fails to comply with the requirement to provide information is liable to a fine of $10,000 and imprisonment for six months.

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