Hong Kong residents will finally be able to leave home without a face mask. | via philstarlife
Hong Kong residents will finally be able to leave home without a face mask from Wednesday, March 1, nearly 1,000 days after theFace coverings will no longer be required indoors, outdoors, or on public transport, the government announced, ending a measure that has become a relic globally as the world adjusts to living alongside the coronavirus.
The end of masking restrictions comes as the government tries to woo back tourists and overseas talent to revive the recession-hit economy. "We have got a high level of hybrid immunity and a relatively low case fatality rate—the latter at a level similar to flu," said Kwok Kin-on, an associate professor of public health at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, calling masking unneeded.
Hong Kong's Asian rival Singapore scrapped indoor face coverings in August, while South Korea did the same in January this year. Shortly after his announcement, the public hospitals operator said patients, visitors, and staff would still need to don surgical masks before entering government-run health facilities. It hewed to a version of China's zero-Covid model until Beijing's abrupt pivot from the hallmark containment policy in December.
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