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LettersCoronavirus in Hong Kong: airport staff impress, but isolation centres are another story
- While Hong Kong authorities have got a lot right, the everyday management of the Fo Tan quarantine centre leaves much to be desired
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This is addressed to whoever is in charge in the overall management of Covid-19 isolation centres in Hong Kong.
First, I want to express my gratitude to and admiration for the Hong Kong authorities and how they have been handling the Covid-19 outbreak.
I arrived back in Hong Kong on June 18 on an evacuation flight and I was thoroughly impressed with how efficient the airport staff were at handling testing for the virus. They must have received results very quickly, as we heard three people on our flight had tested positive – and thus it was certainly very necessary to make sure that all passengers were kept in isolation for two weeks.
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Transfer to Fo Tan was very swift and we were assigned “rooms” which actually are flats, originally allocated to people who were unfortunate enough to have their longed-for housing confiscated by the government for several months.
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Hong Kong’s tough quarantine and travel restrictions
Hong Kong’s tough quarantine and travel restrictions
These places are waiting to be finished with proper flooring and furniture. It is totally understandable that the government should not purchase furniture that will have to be disposed of later. However, walking around on cement floors is not pleasant, nor is there even anything where items could be stored during these 14 days of confinement, if not “imprisonment”.
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