Dear Staff and Students,
We would like to share the following message from Department of Health about Updated information on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and vaccines.
Health, Safety and Environment Office
Dear Sir/Madam,
Updated information on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)and vaccines
1. Government tightens boarding and quarantine requirements for persons arriving at Hong Kong
The Government continues to closely monitor the epidemic situation of various places, the prevalence of new virus variants, vaccination progress, and changes in the volume of cross-boundary passenger traffic, and adjusts the boarding and compulsory quarantine requirements for persons arriving at Hong Kong from relevant places as the situation warrants.
The Government will specify Argentina, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Malaysia, the Netherlands and Singapore as high-risk Group B specified places with effect from May 21.
To guard against the importation of COVID-19 cases into Hong Kong, persons arriving at Hong Kong from overseas are subject to testing and compulsory quarantine requirements under a set of stringent inbound prevention and control measures. Depending on the risk levels of places where the persons arriving at Hong Kong depart from and the applicable compulsory quarantine periods, the number of tests these persons subject to during compulsory quarantine will also be increased to two (for 7-day compulsory quarantine period) to four times (for 21-day compulsory quarantine period). Furthermore, persons arriving at Hong Kong from extremely high-risk or very high-risk specified places, or fully vaccinated persons with shortened quarantine periods, will also be required to undergo additional compulsory tests upon the completion of compulsory quarantine.
Moreover, all persons who have stayed in Taiwan on the day of boarding or during the 14 days before that day, will have to present at boarding a negative result proof of a nucleic acid test for COVID-19 conducted within 72 hours before the scheduled time of departure of the aircraft, as well as the confirmation of a room reservation in a designated quarantine hotel in Hong Kong. On arrival at Hong Kong, they will be subject to the "test-and-hold" arrangement at the airport. Under the relevant requirements, non-Hong Kong residents will be denied entry. Persons who are not fully vaccinated will be subject to a 21-day compulsory quarantine at designated quarantine hotels, with 4 tests to be conducted during the period. Fully vaccinated persons will be subject to a 14-day compulsory quarantine at designated quarantine hotels, with 3 tests to be conducted during the period, followed by a seven-day self-monitoring period as well as compulsory testing on the 16th and 19th day of arrival at Hong Kong.
For details, please refer to:
https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/202105/17/P2021051700716.htm
https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/202105/16/P2021051600804.htm
https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/202105/13/P2021051300907.htm
The Government has categorised the relevant specified places into different groups according to the relevant risk-based boarding and compulsory quarantine requirements:
https://www.coronavirus.gov.hk/eng/high-risk-places.html
2. Foreign domestic helpers (FDHs) to undergo second round of compulsory testing
The Government thanked the 340 000 FDHs who contributed to the anti-epidemic efforts by complying with the compulsory testing requirement early this month, under which three confirmed cases involving the N501Y mutant strain were detected in a timely manner to cut the latent transmission chain in the community.
All FDHs working in Hong Kong to undergo a COVID-19 nucleic acid test for the second time during the period from May 15 to May 30. FDHs who have received the second dose of COVID-19 vaccination on May 16 or before could be exempted from testing. The Government reminded exempted FDHs to download their electronic vaccination records or save the printouts of their vaccination records to their mobile phones, or bring along the printouts or copies of their vaccination records, so as to prove eligibility for exemption.
For details, please refer to:
https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/202105/12/P2021051200809.htm
More information on COVID-19 vaccines
https://www.covidvaccine.gov.hk/en/
We would like to solicit your support to disseminate the information to your colleagues, work associates and/or business partners so that they could adopt proper preventive measures. Thank you very much for your support.
Department of Health
******************************************
敬啟者：
2019冠狀病毒病及疫苗的最新資訊
1. 政府收緊到港人士的登機及檢疫要求
政府繼續密切監察不同地區的疫情、新變種病毒的流行程度、接種疫苗的進度及出入境人數的變化，並視乎情況需要調整相關地區到港人士的登機及強制檢疫要求。
政府將指明阿根廷、意大利、日本、肯尼亞、馬來西亞、荷蘭及新加坡為高風險的B組指明地區，五月二十一日起開始生效。
為了嚴防2019冠狀病毒病輸入香港，從海外抵港的人士需要按照嚴謹的入境防控措施接受檢測及強制檢疫。視乎抵港人士來源地區風險分組及適用的強制檢疫期，抵港人士除了現時在登機前及／或到埗時的檢測外，在強制檢疫期間須接受檢測的次數，視乎檢疫期會增至兩次（七天檢疫期）至四次（二十一天檢疫期）不等。此外，從極高或甚高風險地區抵港的人士，或已接種疫苗並獲縮減檢疫期的人士，亦須在完成檢疫後額外接受強制檢測。
另外，所有在登機當天或之前14天曾逗留台灣的人士，須於登機時出示預定起飛時間前72小時內進行的2019冠狀病毒病核酸檢測陰性結果證明，以及其在香港指定檢疫酒店預訂房間的確認書。抵港後，他們須於機場接受「檢測待行」安排。在相關要求下，非香港居民將不會獲准入境。未完成接種疫苗的人士須於指定檢疫酒店強制檢疫21天，期間接受四次檢測。已完成接種疫苗的人士則須於指定檢疫酒店強制檢疫14天，期間接受三次檢測，其後七天自行監察，及於抵港第16天和第19天接受強制檢測。
詳情可參閱：
https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/202105/17/P2021051700711.htm
https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/202105/16/P2021051600800.htm
https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/202105/13/P2021051300865.htm
政府已把相關指明地區按風險所實施的登機及強制檢疫要求整理為不同組別:
https://www.coronavirus.gov.hk/chi/high-risk-places.html
2. 外籍家庭傭工須接受第二次強制檢測
政府感謝逾34萬名外籍家庭傭工（外傭）為防疫抗疫作出貢獻，於本月初配合強制檢測安排，讓當局能及時偵測出三宗涉及N501Y變種病毒株的確診個案，從而堵截社區隱性傳播鏈。
所有在港工作的外傭須於五月十五日至五月三十日期間接受第二次2019冠狀病毒病核酸檢測。在五月十六日或之前已經在本港接種了第二劑新冠疫苗的外傭，可獲豁免接受檢測。獲得豁免的外傭，可下載電子疫苗紀錄或將疫苗紀錄的列印文本存在手提電話中，又或攜帶疫苗紀錄的列印文本或副本，以便證明豁免資格。
詳情可參閱：
https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/202105/12/P2021051200806.htm
更多新冠疫苗資訊：
www.covidvaccine.gov.hk
希望你可以將有關資訊與你的同事、合作者及／或業務伙伴分享，讓他們都能採取合適的預防措施。非常感謝你的支持。
衞生署
