HKMA instructs Hong Kong’s 165 banks to allow only vaccinated staff in branches and offices, stepping up government’s vaccine pass policy

Hong Kong’s monetary authority has instructed the city’s banks to allow only vaccinated employees to enter their branches and offices, as it enforces the government’s vaccine pass policy amid a surge on Covid-19 cases.The de facto central bank “strongly encourages” banks to admit only staff who have received at least one vaccine shot into their workplace, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) said. Banks have two weeks to notify the HKMA when they would enforce the measure.Hong Kong’s…

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