Government extends social distancing measures under Prevention and Control of Disease Ordinance and Government strengthens restrictions to persons arriving at Hong Kong from United Kingdom
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Government extends social distancing measures under Prevention and Control of Disease Ordinance and Government strengthens restrictions to persons arriving at Hong Kong from United Kingdom

The COVID-19 epidemic situation in Hong Kong is at the most serious and critical stage. The Government will maintain the current social distancing measures.

The details of the requirements and restrictions maintained during the 14-day period from December 24, 2020 to January 6, 2021 are as follows:
 
(1) The requirements and restrictions applicable to catering business and scheduled premises (details at Annex 1) will be maintained: from 6pm to 4.59am of the subsequent day, save for specific premises (details at Annex 2), a person responsible for carrying on a catering business must cease selling or supplying food or drink for consumption on the premises of the business; no more than two persons may be seated together at one table within any catering premises; bars or pubs will continue to be closed; and except club-houses and hotels or guesthouses, all scheduled premises regulated under Cap. 599F must be closed.
 
(2) Unless exempted, the prohibition on group gatherings of more than two persons in public places will continue. The requirement is also applicable to group gatherings in catering business and scheduled premises regulated under Cap. 599F in which the relevant requirements or restrictions are not complied with.

(3) The mandatory mask-wearing requirement under Cap. 599I will be extended.

Moreover, ​in view of the development of COVID-19 epidemic situation in the United Kingdom (UK), the Government has tightened a number of infection control measures applicable to persons arriving at Hong Kong from the UK. Details of the measures are as below:

(1) The requirements under Cap. 599H will be tightened so that all persons who have stayed in the UK for more than two hours in the past 14 days (including Hong Kong residents) will not be allowed to board for Hong Kong.

(2) An updated compulsory testing notice will be made under Cap. 599J, which requires persons who have stayed in the UK, arrive at Hong Kong on or after December 2, 2020, and are placed under compulsory quarantine in Hong Kong (including the quarantine orders issued under the Compulsory Quarantine of Persons Arriving at Hong Kong from Foreign Places Regulation (Cap. 599E) or Compulsory Quarantine of Certain Persons Arriving at Hong Kong Regulation (Cap. 599C)), to stay at their place of residence, private premises or the place of quarantine specified on the quarantine order (place of stay) apart from undergoing testing at the Community Testing Centres on the 19th or 20th day following their arrival at Hong Kong. If the persons who arrive at Hong Kong from the UK and are subject to testing need to take public transport for the purpose of undergoing testing or for going to their place of stay, the persons can only travel direct by taking taxis and cannot disembark on the way. Any person who fails to comply with the above requirements commits an offence and may be fined a fixed penalty of $5,000. The person would also be issued with a compulsory testing order requiring him/her to undergo testing within a specified timeframe. Failure to comply with the order is an offence and the offender would be liable to a fine at level 4 ($25,000) and imprisonment for six months.

The Government is also working on the legislative amendment in parallel, which will allow the compulsory quarantine period to last for more than 14 days when necessary, including lengthening the compulsory quarantine period for persons who arrive at Hong Kong from the UK to 21 days.
Please visit the Thematic Website (https://www.coronavirus.gov.hk/eng/index.html) regularly for further information and updates.  We would like to solicit your support to disseminate the information to your service users so that they could adopt proper preventive measures. For more details, please refer to the press releases and the Annex:

Government extends social distancing measures under Prevention and Control of Disease Ordinance
https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/202012/21/P2020122100978.htm

Annex
https://gia.info.gov.hk/general/202012/21/P2020122100978_356950_1_1608565358631.pdf

Government strengthens restrictions to persons arriving at Hong Kong from United Kingdom
https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/202012/22/P2020122200030.htm
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