Hong Kong travel health
Required is not recommended: the first is what the border asks about, the second is what a clinic would suggest. Both, for Hong Kong, then the number to dial and what care costs a visitor. Applies to every guide in Hong Kong: Hong Kong.
Required to enter
- Yellow fever certificate, but only if you are arriving from a country where yellow fever is present
Recommended
- Routine vaccinations up to date
- Hepatitis A
Emergency number
999
Care for visitors
Excellent and cheap
Excellent, and public emergency care is available to visitors at a fixed non-resident fee that is modest by Western standards. Private hospitals are fast and expensive. English is spoken throughout the system.
Tap water is safe. Summer heat and humidity are the main hazard, and typhoon signal 8 shuts the city down — take it seriously rather than going out to look.
The general rules — clinic timing, water, mosquitoes, insurance — are in travel health tips.
