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    The Department of Health today announced that the health quarantine arrangements on inbound travellers from overseas will be further extended and adjusted in response to the latest global COVID-19 situation.

    Following the Government's announcement of the Red Outbound Travel Alert issued on European countries in the Schengen Area, the Department of Health will strengthen health quarantine measures on people arriving from these countries. The adjustments were made as the capacity of quarantine facilities in Hong Kong is limited at the moment and the Government has decided that the current quarantine centres need to be reserved for close contacts of confirmed COVID-19 cases.

    People arriving in Hong Kong who have been to Daegu and Gyeongsangbuk-do in Korea (also applicable to non-Hong Kong residents from midnight on March 17), Iran and the Emilia-Romagna, Lombardy and Veneto regions in Italy in the past 14 days need to stay in a quarantine centre.

    From midnight tomorrow, people arriving in Hong Kong who have been to Italy (except the Emilia-Romagna, Lombardy and Veneto regions), Bourgogne-Franche-Comte and Grand Est regions in France, North Rhine-Westphalia region in Germany, Hokkaido in Japan and La Rioja, Madrid and Pais Vasco regions in Spain in the past 14 days will be subject to compulsory home quarantine.

    Starting from midnight on March 17, people arriving in Hong Kong who have been to Korea (except Daegu and Gyeongsangbuk-do) and the Schengen Area will be subject to compulsory home quarantine as well. The Department of Health also noted that imported cases from the UK, US, India and Egypt have also been recorded in Hong Kong, indicating community transmissions in these countries.

    It urged those currently outside of Hong Kong - in particular those studying in Europe or America - to return to the city as soon as possible if they have plans to return. Local airlines are planning to adjust their carrying capacity to address the demand of flights to Hong Kong, it added.
    New quarantine rules from 17th March

    https://www.news.gov.hk/eng/2020/03/...ory&name=wuhan
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    Sorry if this has already been posted but how people can be so naive and stupid is beyond me and my existence. Anti viral "necklace"!!! Give them a huge gold medal as well as a Nobel Prize for stupidity.

    https://www.hongkongfp.com/2020/03/1...s-around-asia/
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    Quote Originally Posted by hannah01:
    Sorry if this has already been posted but how people can be so naive and stupid is beyond me and my existence. Anti viral "necklace". Give them a huge gold medal as well as a Nobel Prize for stupidity.

    https://www.hongkongfp.com/2020/03/1...s-around-asia/
    I've seen otherwise sensible people wear it. What does that say?

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    The definitive answer if HK is part of China?

    https://www.applemust.com/coronaviru...outside-china/


    If the stores stay open 1) the fanboys will be happy and we are not an independent state.

    If the stores close 2) the reverse of 1) and definitive proof that we are independent of China.

    Discuss!

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    Quote Originally Posted by hannah01:
    Sorry if this has already been posted but how people can be so naive and stupid is beyond me and my existence. Anti viral "necklace"!!! Give them a huge gold medal as well as a Nobel Prize for stupidity.

    https://www.hongkongfp.com/2020/03/1...s-around-asia/

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    We are at 142 cases, still seems that many are related to overseas travel - or overseas travel makes you more susceptible to catching the virus locally.

    https://wars.vote4.hk/en/cases


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    That has to be truly disgusting even in normal times, why is this happening in 2020, can't be that hard to build a proper plumbing system that does't spray sewage droplets into flats surely?

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    To be fair, it doesn’t look like the same mechanism of transmission right now, but I’d also agree to not being convinced that lessons have been fully learned either. Lead water scandal etc. shows that there are various undetected and unresolved issues around.

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    And has a virus case even hit a village house yet?


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