Coronavirus: Hong Kong toughens travel restrictions on all arrivals from foreign countries amid concerns about wave of imported cases swamping public health system
- City leader Carrie Lam expands red travel alert to cover all countries and jurisdictions except for neighbouring Macau, Taiwan and mainland China
- 10 new Covid-19 cases confirmed in city, taking total to 167, and at least eight of the new patients had travelled overseas recently
The city confirmed 10 new Covid-19 cases that took its total to 167. At least eight of the new patients had travelled overseas recently, and four had only just returned home a day earlier, two of them students escaping from Britain, where the situation looked grim.
With the number of Covid-19 cases and deaths across the world continuing to surge above mainland China’s total, Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor expanded a red travel alert to cover all countries and jurisdictions except for neighbouring Macau, Taiwan and mainland China.
Starting from Thursday, anyone arriving from overseas would have to undergo home quarantine for 14 days and be subject to another two weeks of medical surveillance.
Arrivals from the mainland – which reported 21 new cases, all imported except for one at ground zero in Wuhan – are already required to self-isolate at home.