Wuhan coronavirus outbreak worries as it spread to HK & beyond
Feb 6, 2020, 10:58 pm
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It is now Friday afternoon and the Government has yet to announce precisely how the quarantine on those coming from the Mainland will be implemented starting tomorrow.
I think this reasonably suggests that there's going to be great confusion at the border in the first days as the practicalities are worked out.
The message is: if you're coming to Hong Kong from the Mainland after tonight, wait a few days until the procedures stabilise.This includes entry by both land and air.
I think this reasonably suggests that there's going to be great confusion at the border in the first days as the practicalities are worked out.
The message is: if you're coming to Hong Kong from the Mainland after tonight, wait a few days until the procedures stabilise.This includes entry by both land and air.
Feb 7, 2020, 4:56 am
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Feb 7, 2020, 5:06 am
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It is now Friday afternoon and the Government has yet to announce precisely how the quarantine on those coming from the Mainland will be implemented starting tomorrow.
I think this reasonably suggests that there's going to be great confusion at the border in the first days as the practicalities are worked out.
The message is: if you're coming to Hong Kong from the Mainland after tonight, wait a few days until the procedures stabilise.This includes entry by both land and air.
I think this reasonably suggests that there's going to be great confusion at the border in the first days as the practicalities are worked out.
The message is: if you're coming to Hong Kong from the Mainland after tonight, wait a few days until the procedures stabilise.This includes entry by both land and air.
Mainland entry cases coming in tomorrow won’t have wrist straps in the first instance (I don’t think Govt can come up with that many). Only AWOLs will get straps.
It’ll be akin to TW’s: mandatory home self quarantine
Govt will call self-quarantined (govt recruiting retired civil servants, work at home civil servants and final year medical students to do the calling) and visit some of them randomly
If they go AWOL law enforcement will look for them.
HK residents to self-quarantine themselves at home, visitors at hotel or Govt quarantine centres
Cannot leave til end of 14 day quarantine
NowTV interviewed a med student who’s concerned there’s no provisions to examine the self-quarantined
But in all honesty I think HK’s self-quarantine measures mirror Taiwan’s - they don’t do more than put people under orders and call them up.
Last edited by percysmith; Feb 7, 2020 at 5:35 am
Feb 7, 2020, 5:06 am
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Feb 7, 2020, 5:25 am
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As I said before, if they follow the SARS approach, there will be a notice in the lift lobby alerting all residents there's a quarantine case in the block. It won't identify the flat, but you can be sure everyone will quickly know it. So there'll be eyes everywhere. As well, HK residential blocks have a 24-hour guard, and usually CCTV in the lift that's recorded. And then there are the cleaning people and household helpers who gossip.
Not all that much privacy in Hong Kong, really.
Not all that much privacy in Hong Kong, really.
Feb 7, 2020, 5:29 am
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As I said before, if they follow the SARS approach, there will be a notice in the lift lobby alerting all residents there's a quarantine case in the block. It won't identify the flat, but you can be sure everyone will quickly know it. So there'll be eyes everywhere. As well, HK residential blocks have a 24-hour guard, and usually CCTV in the lift that's recorded. And then there are the cleaning people and household helpers who gossip.
Not all that much privacy in Hong Kong, really.
Not all that much privacy in Hong Kong, really.
Heres the piece
有住戶不滿政府不公布家居檢疫人士居住樓層
http://news.now.com/home/local/playe...59&refer=Share
Last edited by percysmith; Feb 7, 2020 at 7:21 am
Feb 7, 2020, 5:35 am
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Just wait just wait. Those visitors from who-knows-what Government department will be a tip-off.
Myself, I'd rather stay in a hotel than deal with my neighbours if a family member were quarantined. Because they're going to regard everyone living in that flat as tainted.
Myself, I'd rather stay in a hotel than deal with my neighbours if a family member were quarantined. Because they're going to regard everyone living in that flat as tainted.
Feb 7, 2020, 7:33 am
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It's hard to see how calling someone to verify a mandatory quarantine is foolproof. Someone else, similar in age and gender and ability to speak Chinese/English, could answer the phone even if it's enabled for GPS tracking.
Feb 7, 2020, 9:26 am
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Peoples Congress and Political Consultative havent been called off
HK has representatives to both. Local pro-PRC bigwigs
Theyre all theoretically subject to quarantine when they come back
【政情】建制憂開兩會後須強制檢疫 北京促每日匯報健康情況
http://news.now.com/home/local/playe...61&refer=Share
HK has representatives to both. Local pro-PRC bigwigs
Theyre all theoretically subject to quarantine when they come back
【政情】建制憂開兩會後須強制檢疫 北京促每日匯報健康情況
http://news.now.com/home/local/playe...61&refer=Share
Feb 7, 2020, 9:36 am
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This is why I'd like to see the text of the rules, which so far as I can tell hasn't been published yet, even though the rules are now in effect. I'm going to guess there's some sort of VIP loophole in there. At a minimum, the Liaison Office would insist on one for its own people.
Feb 7, 2020, 10:17 am
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This is why I'd like to see the text of the rules, which so far as I can tell hasn't been published yet, even though the rules are now in effect. I'm going to guess there's some sort of VIP loophole in there. At a minimum, the Liaison Office would insist on one for its own people.
https://www.gld.gov.hk/egazette/pdf/...2020240612.pdf
Coronavirus: travellers from mainland China face jail if they defy new Hong Kong quarantine measures as thousands rush to cross border before Saturday
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/...hina-face-jail
Feb 7, 2020, 4:43 pm
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So some carriers are sending them out. Wonder if there is some kind of law that permits the government to send these in the name of public safety or security?