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Hong Kong eases COVID rules for aircrews, lifts overseas travel alert

FILE PHOTO: A Cathay Pacific aircraft takes off at the airport, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Hong Kong, China, March 31, 2022. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu/File Photo

Hong Kong will shorten mandatory hotel quarantine for passenger flight crews to three days from seven, while cargo crews will be exempt, modest steps at unwinding coronavirus curbs that have turned the city into one of the world's most isolated places.

The changes, which take effect in May, give the global financial hub's aviation trade and logistics industries "much needed survival space", the government said in a statement on Friday.

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