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On Monday, the Hong Kong government announced that it would be easing COVID-19 restrictions on incoming tour groups, allowing them to visit theme parks and museums once they had arrived in the global financial centre.

In recent months, Hong Kong has loosened many of its strict coronavirus regulations, including the requirement for international travellers to stay in quarantined hotels as of September 26.

However, new international immigrants are still need to undergo several coronavirus tests and are prohibited for the first three days from attending pubs, restaurants, and establishments like sports clubs.

Without providing a start date, the administration announced that specific procedures for travelling visitors would be implemented this month.

The government stated that the necessary procedures "can facilitate the gradual and orderly return of the inbound travel market and create more favourable business environment for the travel trade."

The announcement followed Hong Kong's hosting of a prominent finance meeting last week, for which more than 200 financial executives who flew into the former British colony were excused from Hong Kong's regulations for foreign arrivals.