Hong Kong will get rid of most of the rules about bars and restaurants.

Hong Kong will get rid of the last of its Covid-19 rules, which have hurt the city's economy and hurt its reputation as a financial hub.

From tomorrow on, people who just arrived won't be banned from going to restaurants and bars for the first three days, and locals won't have to scan a tracking app to get into restaurants, bars, and other places.

Hong Kong's chief executive, John Lee, said, "We have looked at the data and risk, and one of the things we looked at is that the risk brought in by imported cases is actually lower than the risk of infection in the community."

The changes come after Beijing changed its mind about its "zero-Covid" policy this month. The country dropped a lot of rules that were meant to get rid of cases, which led to more infections.

Even though Hong Kong was never as restricted as the rest of China, it still had its own elimination policy and week-long government quarantines until a terrible outbreak at the beginning of this year made them unnecessary.

Slowly, the city has been loosening its rules, and in September, it got rid of the quarantine that all new passengers had to go through.

Hong Kong's rules about pandemics will still be stricter than those in many other cities around the world. Lee said that the city's "vaccine pass" system, in which people have to show that they've been vaccinated on a government app, will stay in place.