Tens of thousands of travelers traveled between mainland China and the special administrative region of Hong Kong on Monday, the first time in three years that all border posts were fully reopened without COVID-19 restrictions, officials said.
China announced last week that cross-border travel between the mainland, Hong Kong and Macau would fully resume from February 6, removing existing quotas and scrapping mandatory COVID testing before travel.
Hong Kong’s MTR Corp said in a statement that about 22,000 commuters used the Lo Wu station checkpoint as of noon on Monday. Lo Wu was one of three Hong Kong border posts that had not yet reopened.
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