Hong Kong to bar unvaccinated from restaurants and cinemas

Elderly jab rates 'very low' despite 70% of population having had two doses

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Hong Kong residents will be required to have at least one COVID-19 vaccine shot to enter restaurants and other venues from the Lunar New Year on Feb. 1 © Reuters

PAK YIU, Nikkei staff writer

HONG KONG -- Unvaccinated Hong Kong residents will be barred from entering restaurants and other venues next month, the territory's government said on Friday, as the city braces itself for a possible fifth wave of the coronavirus.

People will be required to have at least one COVID-19 vaccine shot to enter restaurants, bars, beauty parlors, gyms, cinemas, public libraries and night clubs by the Lunar New Year on Feb. 1.

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