Hong Kong Drops Curbs on Incoming Travellers, Scraps COVID-19 App

Hong Kong Drops Curbs on Incoming Travellers, Scraps COVID-19 App
A QR code for the "LeaveHomeSafe" COVID-19 contact-tracing app inside a shopping mall in Hong Kong on Dec. 13, 2022. Tyrone Siu/Reuters
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HONG KONG—Hong Kong announced that from Wednesday international passengers arriving in the territory would no longer face COVID-19 movement controls or be barred from certain venues, and that it was also scrapping a mandatory COVID-19 mobile application.

The news of a further loosening of COVID-19 curbs in the global financial hub, which has trailed most of the world in easing them, may boost resumption of travel and business.