Quarantine-free travel from Hong Kong to mainland China will start in early December, after top Chinese officials agreed to bring the date forward – but the initial quota will be limited to just a few hundred people a day, the South China Morning Post revealed on Friday.
The first phase of the much-anticipated border reopening is the result of weeks of negotiations between the two sides, and is likely to coincide with China’s Olympic medallists visiting the city.
Numbers would be increased to “a few thousand” in the following months once teething problems were addressed and a system of testing and tracking had been introduced, the paper said, quoting two sources. Read the full story: South China Morning Post.
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