Laurel Chor, a photographer, tweeted the step-by-step process she was instructed to take upon arrival at Hong Kong airport, offering a stark contrast with much laxer restrictions in other countries, including the UK.
Her widely-shared insight into the new normal of global travel describes a mandatory coronavirus test with a wait of several hours in a large hall for the results to come back, then having to put on a tracking bracelet and install an app on her phone to enable contact tracing.
Hong Kong has recorded just four deaths and about 1,000 confirmed cases of the virus.
In the UK, the government has suggested it may introduce a 14-day quarantine for arrivals from all countries except Ireland and France. But no start or end date for the measures have been announced.