Omicron: bars, gyms, nightclubs to close, 6pm restaurant curfew as Hong Kong ramps up battle against Covid-19 fifth wave
- Carrie Lam announces two-week flight ban on countries including the US, Britain and the Philippines, taking effect on Saturday
- From Friday, evening dining banned in restaurants, while bars and other leisure venues ordered to close, under tough package of Covid-19 measures fighting fifth wave of infections
Key points:
– Dine-in services banned from 6pm to 4.59am the next day; diners per table capped at two in Type B premises, four in Type C and six for Type D
– Fifteen types of specified premises to shut. They are bars and pubs, nightclubs, fitness centres, theme parks, museums, party rooms, beauty parlours, swimming pools, bathhouses, game centres, karaoke rooms, sports premises, Chinese-style gambling establishments for mahjong and tin kau (dominoes), event and performance venues, and cinemas
– Arrivals from eight countries (Australia, Canada, France, India, Pakistan, the Philippines, UK and US), including via transit, banned from returning to the city for two weeks starting Saturday
– All local tours and ‘cruises-to-nowhere’ suspended
– Public hospital and nursing home visits halted