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China will reopen its borders on Sunday, including with its special administrative region of Hong Kong, after nearly three years of COVID-19 closures and restrictions.

Starting Sunday, people arriving from the city will be allowed entry if they have a negative PCR test result from the past 48 hours

China will begin normalizing travel between the mainland and Hong Kong from Sunday, Beijing announced Thursday, easing painful pandemic restrictions that have kept the border mostly sealed for almost three years. All but three of Hong Kong's 12 crossings with the mainland have been closed since the start of the…

Announcement comes after three years of border controls that have isolated the financial hub from the Chinese mainland.

A surge in cases after China lifted restrictions has sparked concerns that a dangerous new strain could emerge

On Thursday, the government's new COVID-19 testing requirements for travellers coming into Australia from China, Hong Kong and Macau began and family and friends in Melbourne and Sydney were keenly awaiting their arrival.

China's government said on Thursday that its border with special administrative region Hong Kong would reopen on Jan. 8, the first time in three years, as Beijing accelerates the unwinding of stringent COVID rules that have battered economic growth.

Hong Kong residents have swamped clinics to get vaccinated against COVID-19 ahead of the expected reopening of the city's border with mainland China, which some people fear will bring a surge of infections to the financial hub.

The attendance of both the former bishop of Hong Kong and an adviser to Taiwan’s leader at this week’s funeral for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI highlights the Vatican’s uneasy relationship with communist-ruled China