A health expert said on Friday that the risk of relaxing Hong Kong’s Covid curbs is relatively low as he estimated some 4 million people in Hong Kong have Covid antibodies, with the city’s vaccination rate having gone up further recently. Meanwhile, he agreed that bars and pubs should be reopened in the later phases of the city’s roadmap to normalcy. The trade had earlier criticized the city’s “discriminative” Covid rules, with the industry being left out in the latest easing of social distancing measures. Separately, the health expert expected the city’s daily Covid tally to fall to three digits by the end of April. However, he noted there is still a possible risk of a rebound in Covid cases after the Easter holidays.

Source: The Standard April 15, 2022 17:29 UTC