Quarantine changes could spare snooker stars from ‘closed loop’ for Hong Kong Masters

The scrapping of Hong Kong’s hotel quarantine policy for incoming travellers has been welcomed by officials behind the Hong Kong Masters, the city’s flagship snooker event which will return next month.

But they still have matters to raise with the government, because some of the world’s leading players could yet be restricted despite the sweeping changes announced on Friday.

Arrivals under the new “0+3” plan will only be required to go through three days of home medical surveillance, with their movement citywide limited, rather than three days in a quarantine hotel and four of medical surveillance in the previous “3+4” system.