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		</div><p>Hong Kong officials have dropped a plan to mandate foreign domestic workers to be vaccinated against coronavirus amid international criticism that the move would be discriminatory.</p>
<p>Most of Hong Kong’s approximately 370,000 domestic workers come from Indonesia and the Philippines, both severely affected by the pandemic.</p>
<p>Hong Kong officials initially proposed the mandate after a foreign domestic worker tested positive for a Covid-19 variant in April, with an unknown source of infection. Another worker arriving from the Philippines also tested positive for a variant.</p>
<p>Those findings prompted the city to order domestic workers to be tested for the virus at the end of April.</p>
<p>The plan for mandatory vaccinations was dropped after officials assessed public health needs and potential legal issues, Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said at a regular news briefing on Tuesday.</p>
<p>Philippines Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr previously condemned the Hong Kong government for its mandatory vaccination plan for foreign domestic workers, saying it “smacks of discrimination”,</p>
<p>On Tuesday, Ms Lam also announced a second round of mandatory tests for domestic workers as a precaution, which will begin on Saturday and last until the end of the May.</p>
<p>She urged employers to allow staff to take the test on a work day instead of on their day off.</p>
<p>Hong Kong has so far reported 11,812 coronavirus infections, with 210 deaths.</p>
<p>Indonesia has reported more than 1.7 million people infected and 47,000 deaths, while the Philippines has confirmed 1.1 million infections and 18,500 deaths.</p>
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