The new crown pneumonia epidemic in Hong Kong has been stable in recent months, but there have been multiple confirmed cases of employees at the airport.
Cathay Pacific Airways issued an internal notice in June, stipulating that from October 1st, all Cathay Pacific employees and outsourced service providers who enter the restricted area of the Hong Kong International Airport must have been vaccinated and will no longer be accepted from the same day. The test certificate is replaced. The company announced today (20th) that from December 1st, all Cathay Pacific employees and outsourced service providers who work and enter or exit from the airport restricted area in foreign Thai premises must also have been vaccinated.
In addition, the Airport Authority stated today that certain groups of airport employees, including employees handling high-risk cargo, airline and ground handling agents, and apron coordinators, must complete at least one dose of vaccination from September 1, and they must not be negative. The test result proves to replace vaccination, and the medical exemption is not accepted. Employees of certain groups must complete the vaccination before September 30 (that is, 14 days after the second dose), and must be tested every seven days.
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From 10.1 Cathay Pacific members in the restricted area must have been injected
Cathay Pacific has stipulated that from October 1st, all Cathay Pacific employees and outsourced service providers who enter the restricted area of the Hong Kong International Airport to work must have been vaccinated and will no longer accept a test certificate from the same day.
Recently, an employee of a VIP contractor was diagnosed with a variant virus. The company issued an internal notice to announce that all Cathay Pacific employees and outsourced service providers who work and enter and exit from foreign Thai premises in the restricted area of the airport will be issued on December 1. It must have been vaccinated and will no longer be accepted from the same day with a test certificate instead.
For individual employees who are still concerned about vaccination, Cathay Pacific will provide free medical evaluation before vaccination, and all logistics staff in Hong Kong can also enjoy two days of vaccination leave, and will separately consider cases of employees who cannot be vaccinated due to health reasons. .
At present, 89% of Cathay Pacific employees in Hong Kong have booked or received vaccinations, including 99% of pilots and approximately 92% of cabin attendants.
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The AA stated that in response to the latest development of the epidemic, in order to further protect airport employees, certain groups of airport employees, including airline employees, will have to be vaccinated.
The AA explained that since August 1st, all airport employees entering the restricted area of the airport must have completed two doses of vaccinations or show proof of negative test results.
However, after a recent confirmed case of an airline VIP room employee, the new regulations will be further strengthened.
According to the new regulations, specific groups include employees who handle high-risk cargo or inevitably have close contact with arrivals; transit/transit passengers and crew members have close contact, that is, there is no partition/barrier within 1.5 meters Two, such as airline and ground handling agent employees, tarmac coordinators, cabin catering coordinators, cargo stevedores; and cabin and toilet cleaners.
The AA emphasized that airport operators, including airlines, can only arrange for vaccinated employees to perform related tasks.
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The new regulations will be implemented in two phases. The first phase is from September 1st. Employees of certain groups must complete at least one dose of the new crown vaccine; employees who have already received one dose or who have completed the vaccine must be tested every seven days .
The second phase starts on September 30. All employees of a specific group must complete two doses of vaccines and be tested every seven days.
Medical exemptions are not accepted in the above two stages.
As for all other employees entering the restricted area of the airport, they must complete vaccination from September 30 and undergo a test on the 14th; those who obtain medical exemptions must be tested every seven days.
The AA also pointed out that so far, more than 80% of employees in specific groups have received the first dose of vaccine.
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