Covid19 Red Tape Cut for Hong Kong Returnees and Visitors to UK -- Chinese News Sources

The government have agreed a plan to let Hong Kong residents who are vaccinated against COVID19 to return to Hong Kong from the United Kingdom. 

This move is likely to most benefit students who have been unable to return to their families after completing their studies after the UK became a high risk COVID19 zone. 

This change in restrictions happens amidst a surge in the Delta COVID19 variant there and after Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that safeguards against COVID19 in that country would be a matter of "personal choice" going forward.

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In related news, the UK agreed a plan to let people traveling from Hong Kong to enter the country with only an antibody test. If they are shown free of COVID19, they will be allowed to visit and / or reside in the UK without having to submit to quarantine. 

These moves will certainly bring up lots of questions about other residents in other high risk areas.  Many countries have started to ease pandemic controls, while some, like Singapore and the Netherlands, have decided to stop announcing daily infection rates and to treat the disease more like the flu. 

Still, in many countries, vaccination rates are low, and it is believed that for as long as vaccination rates are low in Hong Kong and in high risk countries, there is little chance of quarantine and travel restrictions being lifted wholesale.