Hong Kong lifts flight bans from 9 states, halves quarantine period

Hong Kong will lift the ban on commercial flights from nine countries on April 1, with the quarantine period for inbound travelers to be halved to seven days, city leader Carrie Lam said Monday.The government has suspended flights from nine countries deemed high-risk, including the United States, Britain, Canada and Australia, after a surge fueled by the highly transmissible Omicron coronavirus variant in January.Lam said in a press briefing that starting next month, fully vaccinated Hong Kong residents will be allowed to return to the city from any country after obtaining a negative lab te…READ FULL ARTICLE