Beijing considers relaxing quarantine requirements for international arrivals – SCMP report

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China’s capital city of Beijing is considering relaxing its quarantine requirements for international arrivals to a 7+7 policy, which would consist of seven days in a hotel and then seven days of health monitoring at home, reducing the hotel stay from 10 days, reported the South China Morning Post.

If it is introduced this month, it would mark the second reduction in May from the Chinese capital’s initial 14+7 quarantine rule for people arriving from overseas, including Hong Kong.

The relaxation is mainly being considered to reduce challenges for foreign businesses, which have found it difficult to send expatriates to China with the strict quarantine rule in place and select multinational companies have been briefed on the 7+7 arrangement, according to the report. Read more …