Originally Posted by
brunos
The logic is that Taiwan now treats HK as it does mainland China. Other countries have adopted the same approach.
The open border policy followed by the HK Government is part of the equation. Remember that several tens of thousands cross the land borders daily. Shenzhen alone has more than 300 reported cases and thousands commute for work between Shenzhen and HK. Stricter measure will be in place on Saturday, but that's very late. Community infection has started and seems uncontrolled.
this is making it sound a lot worse than it is. There are so far fewer than half as many total confirmed cases in HK than there are traffic-related injuries in HK
every day. And HK’s traffic isn’t even that bad.
I got an SMS today saying that passenger clearance will now only be possible at Airport, Shenzhen Bay and HK-Macau-Zhuhai bridge. So it seems quite a lot of restrictions introduced. But even without those restrictions the infection numbers are very low (as with everywhere outside mainland China). BTW, most countries are not treating HK as part of mainland China for travel restrictions. Although there is quite a bit of fake news floating around about it.