Hong Kong authorities have rowed back on plans to make COVID-19 vaccines mandatory for foreign domestic workers after human rights groups slammed the policy as being discriminatory.
After a domestic worker from the Philippines was found to have a more contagious variant of the coronavirus last week, authorities said all 370,000 foreign domestic workers in the city would have to get tested before May 9.
Domestic workers would also need to get vaccinated before renewing their employment contracts, authorities said.
But Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam on Tuesday said the vaccine policy was being suspended after a backlash from workers’ groups who said they were being unfairly singl…
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