Health and Safety in Hong Kong

Hong Kong offers a high-quality healthcare and medical system. Comprehensive travel insurance that will cover any overseas medical costs, before you depart. Avoid public drinking fountains and carry bottled water in hot weather.

Vaccination certificates are usually not required, though some immunizations are advisable, such as cholera, diphtheria and tetanus, hepatitis A and B, influenza, polio and typhoid. Outbreaks of the mosquito-borne illnesses dengue fever and Japanese encephalitis occur from time to time.

Hong Kong is considered to be quite safe, for both men and women, during the day and at night. Pickpockets are common, especially in crowded places like the Star Ferry waiting lines or at street markets.