A senior state official has backed Hong Kong’s adjustments to Covid-19 pandemic measures in maintaining global connectivity as “understandable” and said local authorities do not have to choose between opening up to the world and the rest of the country, marking the first major signal of Beijing’s blessing for the city to ease travel restrictions. Hong Kong leader John Lee and his predecessor Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor have been caught between calls to reopen Hong Kong’s borders with the world and mainland China, which adopts a “dynamic-zero” Covid strategy.
Source: AP
