Visiting Arrangement

Visiting Arrangement

Public hospitals have stood down the response level from Emergency Response Level to Alert Response Level to dovetail with the Government's decision to stand down the response level from Emergency to Alert under the Preparedness and Response Plan for Novel Infectious Disease of Public Health Significance, in view of the latest situation of COVID-19.

• Visiting arrangements in public hospitals resumed earlier will persist: visiting hours will be not more than four hours per day and not more than two visitors per visit for all acute wards; and not more than six hours per day and not more than two visitors for all convalescent and rehabilitation wards. Please refer to the notice posted in respective wards for details.
  
  
• Patients, visitors and staff members are required to wear surgical masks in the patient care areas of public hospitals and clinics.
  
  
• Patients, visitors and staff members are required to maintain personal and environmental hygiene at all times, and pay special attention to hand hygiene.