But Covid-19 cases, both local and imported, have increased by about 30% in the past week. Read more at straitstimes.com.
HONG KONG - Hong Kong is set to remove more Covid-19 restrictions and will allow live performances and dancing to take place indoors from next Thursday as the city's government considers increasing the limit on the number of people allowed to gather in public.
The public-gathering cap may also be eased so that a dozen people can meet, up from four currently, though this is subject to amendments to pandemic-related law clauses and an announcement will be made when the government confirms the plan, Dr Libby Lee, Hong Kong's under-secretary for health, said in a briefing on Thursday.
Dr Lee added that the government was concerned about new Omicron variants that have been are detected among travellers. in late September, the city's economy and standing as a global financial centre has yet to recover from its attempts to broadly mirror mainland China's zero-Covid-19 policies.
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