- The Director-General for the Prevention and Control of Disease at the Ministry of Health ("Director-General") has introduced a set of guidelines that specifically address the implementation of outbreak preparedness at entry points, ports and airports that serve domestic travel through technical implementation units operating within the health quarantine sector (“Guidelines”) through the issuance of Decree No. HK.02.02/C/1401/2024 ("Decree 2/2024"), which has been in force since 2 May 2024.
- Detailed comprehensively under the Appendix to Decree 2/2024, the above Guidelines will now serve as a reference for health quarantine officials during the monitoring of transportation vehicles, individuals and cargo arriving at the country’s entry ports and border crossing posts, as well as seaports and airports that serve domestic travel. However, it should also be noted that the Heads of the relevant Health Quarantine Technical Implementation Units are authorized to adjust the outbreak monitoring measures that are outlined in the Guidelines, as required.
- The Guidelines cover a wide range of outbreak monitoring aspects that apply to each of the aforementioned entry ports and broadly address the following matters: 1) Preparation (e.g. human resources, as well as facilities and infrastructure); 2) Monitoring measures (e.g. risk-factor based criteria, self-risk assessments, vehicles arriving from areas with outbreak cases and departure prerequisites); and 3) Applicable algorithm for the monitoring of subjects upon arrival.
- In terms of the abovementioned risk-factor-based criteria, the Guidelines have classified risk into three levels that break down as follows: 1) Low risk (i.e. arrivals from regions/countries with no known outbreak cases); 2) Medium risk (i.e. arrivals from regions/countries with outbreak cases but for which serious information has not yet been disclosed in any self-risk assessments); and 3) High risk (i.e. similar to the Medium Risk criteria but with outbreak risk factors having been identified in the relevant vehicles).
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