Hong Kong pandemic advisers recommend shortening quarantine to 14 days

Hong Kong should shorten its lengthiest quarantine period for close contacts and incoming travellers from 21 days to 14 to ease the strain on existing facilities amid a widening outbreak of the Omicron coronavirus variant, the government’s pandemic advisers have proposed.Leading microbiologist Professor Yuen Kwok-yung said on Monday that the Omicron variant had a shorter incubation period, so a 21-day stint in quarantine was “not that necessary”.“The chance of identifying a confirmed case…

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