City authorities extended operations at select checkpoints for the festive event as part of efforts to avoid a repeat of scenes that followed the New Year’s Eve fireworks display, when crowds of travellers were left stranded at some crossings and stations.
In terms of inbound travellers, officials at Shenzhen Bay and Lo Wu logged 1,550 and 2,023 people, mostly made up of Hongkongers, heading into the city during the crossings’ respective extended operating hours.
Overall, Hong Kong’s Immigration Department recorded 435,697 people coming into the city through 13 checkpoints during the second day of the Lunar New Year on Sunday, while 530,168 headed out.
The total number of individual trips that day, 965,865, fell below pre-Covid levels of more than 1 million.
Lawmaker Edward Lau Kwok-fan, of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong, on…
