
LettersSingapore is following the science on Covid quarantine: what about Hong Kong?
- The Hong Kong government should explain why it’s not following the recommendation and practice of the WHO and other countries and regions
- City’s 21-day quarantine defies science and should be scrapped for all travellers, not just some
Kudos to Singapore for following the science, and changing their position based on new evidence.
So what exactly is the scientific evidence that the Hong Kong government and their advisers are using to justify 21 days of quarantine, because, as far as I can tell, it simply doesn’t exist, and never has.
If I am wrong, then please show us that evidence.
James Webster, Wan Chai
No excuse for referring to variants by country name
TV news and other media outlets must make sure that they do not refer to the new variants of the Covid-19 virus by the name of countries where they were first identified. For example, calling the Delta variant the Indian variant or, similarly, the Alpha (UK), Beta (South African) and Gamma (Brazilian) variants by their places of first identification.
Similarly, the Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta mutation could have originated anywhere, even though they were first identified in certain countries where clusters of a large number of cases facilitated the identification.
It should not be forgotten that although the first few cases of Aids were identified in the US, the origin of HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) occurred many decades earlier, probably in Africa.
Dr Sutinder Bindra, Discovery Bay
