[Sports Road News]The “Cathay Pacific / HSBC Hong Kong Sevens”, suspended for 3 years, will return on November 4th (Friday) and will be played at the Hong Kong Stadium for 3 consecutive days. Tickets will go on sale next Thursday (29) and the Lam Association will hold a trick today (23) to announce the event and outbreak prevention arrangements. Spectators are required to wear masks and only food and drinks are allowed on the stands. In addition, the government has also announced that the quarantine agreement upon entry will be changed to the “0 + 3” plan starting next Monday (26).
Hong Kong Seven Lam has been postponed or canceled five times from the outbreak. The one originally scheduled for early April 2020 was postponed for six months two months before the competition, but was finally canceled in June of the same year, the first time in 45 years. The 2021 one was announced at the end of last year to be postponed to November last year, and then suspended in August.
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For health and safety reasons, the Hong Kong stadium has an occupancy limit of 85%, which means a maximum capacity of 34,000 spectators. Among them, more than 16,500 tickets have been subscribed by members of the local rugby club and other interested parties of the event from the exclusive pre-sale period, a further 10,000 tickets will be pre-sold to subscribers of “Qilan Newsletter” on 28 September and the remaining 7,500 tickets Tickets will go on sale from 29 September on Lam Kong’s official ticketing website. Ticket prices will remain the same as in 2019, which are HK $ 1,950 (3-day ticket for adults) and HK $ 950 (3-day ticket for children), and other ticket details will be announced by Lam.
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This year’s event will see 15 Lamborghini World Seven powers visiting Hong Kong, including reigning champion Australia, Hong Kong 2019 champion Fiji, New Zealand, South Africa, England, Ireland, France, Spain, United States United States, Canada, Argentina, Uruguay, Japan, Kenya and Samoa. Hong Kong became the 16th team to participate in the war as a wild card and was placed in the same group as Australia, New Zealand and Samoa.
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Regarding the prevention of the outbreak and the catering arrangements that have attracted a lot of attention, Mak Wai-bin, CEO of the Hong Kong Rugby Union, said there will be no food service in the stands at that time and it will not be allowed. foreign food. In addition, the government also announced today that the quarantine arrangement at the airport entrance will be changed to the “0 + 3″ plan from next Monday (26), ie no hotel quarantine is required, but a ” yellow code “for 3 days listed locales, including bars and restaurants. The methods of preventing the epidemic and catering for other events are as follows.
Provisions for the prevention of epidemics
– Before entering the venue, you must use the Safe Travel app or present a valid vaccine pass and undergo a temperature check.
– The maximum number of people to gather is 8 and there will be reminders for seating in the stadium.
– The public must wear masks outside of lunch hours.
Arrangements for dinner
– Only the drinks service is provided on the premises in the stands, but there is no catering service in the stands.
– The tournament involves the creation of temporary and socially spaced refreshment points above or near the stadium.
– No external food is allowed inside the venue.
– To reduce spectator demand for food, Friday and Saturday matches will be postponed.
The conference will also organize “bubble management” for overseas teams and staff. Two doses of the new corona vaccine must be vaccinated before departure.48Nucleic acid testing is required within hours and nucleic acid testing is also required during their stay in Hong Kong.1squad13The team of people has5If one or more players are diagnosed, the team will automatically retire and undergo quarantine before leaving Hong Kong.
Image and text: Li Zizheng
This article is from “Sports road“Originally published in”【Hong Kong Qilan】 Overseas teams are limited to 8 people in the stands for bubble games」
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