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HONG KONG – Travel lovers may soon be able to scratch that itch under the Singapore-Hong Kong travel bubble in late November.
Trade and Economic Development Secretary Edward Yau on Sunday (November 1) expressed optimism that people will be able to start flying between Hong Kong and Singapore by the end of the month as governments finalize details of the travel bubble which was announced in mid-October.
Speaking to reporters after a television interview, Yau said that travel agencies will likely start selling tickets from mid-November.
There is expected to be at least one designated flight between the two cities every day during the initial phase of the travel bubble.
More flights could be scheduled if the deal proves popular, Yau said, adding that there are measures to suspend the travel bubble if the Covid-19 situation in any of the cities worsens.
Separately, Hong Kong officials are still in the middle of talks with their Guangdong counterparts about a delayed plan to reopen the borders with the mainland.
Tourism-related businesses have been pushing for the borders to be reopened, lamenting that they can no longer hold out until the pandemic fully subsides.
Hong Kong had seven new confirmed cases on Sunday, bringing the tally to 5,330, including 105 deaths. Of the new cases, six were imported and one local.
Health authorities said yesterday that a continental woman awaiting deportation is among the seven new cases. The 42-year-old was arrested by police on October 28 for allegedly overstaying. A dozen more people detained in the same room as her will be quarantined.
He had spent time at Mong Kok Police Station and Castle Peak Bay and Ma Tau Kok Detention Centers, coming into contact with a dozen detainees in the same room. They will be quarantined.
Authorities are trying to find out the source of his infection.
They are also closely monitoring a group of preliminary positive infections, including a 26-year-old woman and a 26-year-old man who had stayed at the Seaview Holiday Resort in Silvermine Bay with six other people between October 25 and 27. .
A 15-year-old boy who came into contact with the 26-year-old during a separate family reunion also tested a preliminary positive. Authorities said his school in Fanling would be closed for two weeks for disinfection.
Chuang Shuk Kwan from the Center for Health Protection said: “For Silvermine’s case, so far we have one plus two preliminary positive cases, so it is already an outbreak. We are putting the other close contacts in quarantine and it is possible that some more cases return positive. “
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