Covid patients isolating at home will have to wear smart bracelets from Friday, Secretary for Health Lo Chung-mau says, and their LeaveHomeSafe app will turn red when the color-coded health-code system launches to bar them from going out. On the seven-day hotel quarantine for overseas arrivals for Hong Kong and non-Hongkongers, Lo said he is mulling a change with part of the confinement to be home isolation. Lo said currently about 60 percent of Covid patients, or over 12,000 people, are under home isolation. "In addition, Hong Kong is an international hub. Long queues remained at Shenzhen Bay port yesterday as people had to take a PCR test and await a result.

Source: The Standard July 12, 2022 07:20 UTC