Hong Kong has decided to tighten quarantine rules for air cargo crew amid rising cases of Omicron across the globe.
Health authorities said that this move has been taken to tackle the growing threat of the Omicron coronavirus variant as the new infections with this variant were detected among air crew, who had only been required to quarantine at home, unlike most other people returning to the city, who have to quarantine in hotels.
The new measures require that returning air cargo crew spend three days in hotel quarantine before a period of home isolation. Most recent infections of air crew staff have been discovered in the first three days.