10 positive cases, 3000 passengers- yup, gonna test them all, see what they find.
Turns out cruises may still be a bad idea in a pandemic, who would've thought it?!?
https://www.reuters.com/business/hea...ns-2021-12-05/
10 positive cases, 3000 passengers- yup, gonna test them all, see what they find.
Turns out cruises may still be a bad idea in a pandemic, who would've thought it?!?
https://www.reuters.com/business/hea...ns-2021-12-05/
Last edited by MABinPengChau; 05-12-2021 at 11:13 PM.
A bit dramatic. A new variant that seems to be more transmissible. Not much known about it. A slight tightening of restrictions as a result. The rest of the world is certainly more logical about it than HK. If it does prove to be mild, one would presume they'd loosen restrictions. It's how its going to be for a while to come. I hope this variant is mild and transmits well, time will tell. PS, i dont think anyone takes anything the WHO says seriously. We have been told before covid wasnt an issue by them.
Last edited by Blowfish; 05-12-2021 at 11:55 PM.
I totally get your point but HK has now dug itself into a corner and instead of looking for a rope or ladder out continues to dig. It has two policy statements on this.
1) Confirmation that the new strain exists in a country = Cat A. They’ve followed through on this. What are they going to do when it is confirmed to exist in China? Continue miraculous exemptions?
2) confirmation of community transmission in a country = 7 days PB plus 14 day hotel. It doesn’t have the capacity to cope with the inevitable. What next? The sensible thing would be to backtrack and revert to the already unnecessary 21 days. My suspicion is they’ll do something stupid and go for 28 days quarantine.
What is dramatic is the effect this is continuing to have not just on the lives of the travellers. Airlines are now pulling out. Pilots are now ‘going sick’ for Christmas. Cargo flights are being cut. That’s not dramatic that’s fact.
It was certainly a good call against Australia. Omicron is now transmitting through the community in Sydney and has grown to dozens of cases within a week. Two schools have been confirmed as venues of transmission.
As for China, as long as they continue with their zero-tolerance against Covid cases then even if Omicron gets in it will just get stamped out like Delta has been over the past six months. And if China abandons Zero-Covid then surely Hong Kong will follow.
I 100% agree that the HK response is out of step, 21 qt is crazy. If i was an airline, i would have stopped flying into hk a long long time ago. It has been clear HK has wanted to increase qt as well, this is the perfect cover for it.
My comment was more aimed at the reference to other countries reintroducing minor restrictions. Imo they are justified and reasonable.
Btw im far from convinced that the border with china will open any time soon in a meaningful way, so the govt wont have the dilemma of dealing with cases from up north!
Meanwhile here's the latest spike in South Africa.
Yeah right and that's why you can see hordes of mainlanders in TST every week-end with their suitcases like in the pre-covid days
Yes we know technically mainlanders can come to HK with the come2hk scheme but that's only a very small quota of people everyday and has zero impact on the economy. So the reality is yes the borders are still closed for 99.9 % of mainlanders it's not possible to come to HK
Racial profiling by Japanese police? Say it isn't so!
Japanese police checking the papers of gaijin...because we know where covid comes from...
https://us.yahoo.com/news/us-embassy...040719375.html