Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor said on Friday the government would launch a “health code” to enable cross border travel when the pandemic situation in Hong Kong stabilizes. Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor said on Friday the government would launch a “health code” to enable cross border travel when the pandemic situation in Hong Kong stabilizes. "It is not a sort of health code for access to local institutions or catering, or things like that, it’s just not practicable to have a health code in Hong Kong for that purpose," the city’s chief said. Alfred Sit Wing-hang, Secretary for Innovation and Technology, said a similar “health code” system has been put into use in Macau and Guangdong. He said authorities in these two places have been finding ways to relax cross-border travel to Hong Kong since May.

Source: The Standard August 22, 2020 02:03 UTC