Hong Kong’s social-distancing rules for restaurants, sports facilities and public gatherings would be relaxed from today.

They countries Hong Kong is in talks with are: Australia, France, Germany, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, Switzerland, Thailand and Vietnam.

Senior officials also said on Tuesday that venues such as theme parks and exhibition centres might be allowed to reopen next week, and called on the public to join the citywide mass testing programme to strengthen overseas confidence in Hong Kong’s handling of the health crisis.