Hong Kong could open up to global travel in roughly six months, after officials have successfully navigated the introduction of quarantine-free borders with mainland China and boosted the local vaccination rate, a government adviser said.
The Chinese territory needs to finish negotiating open borders with the mainland, while using the next few months to increase the flagging COVID-19 inoculation rate among the city¡¯s elderly, Lam Ching-choi, a member of Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam¡¯s advisory Executive Council, said in an interview on Monday.
¡°We maybe need half a year or so to develop an adequate vaccination rate, especially among the older people,¡± said Lam Ching-choi, who is also part of the government¡¯s working group on vaccinations. ¡°Hopefully by then, we have opened up the border with China and we might have conditions favorable to open up the border to other places.¡±
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