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    Covid-19: 03/21 (Sat) - Hong Kong News

    https://twitter.com/XinqiSu/s...20225563860992

    https://twitter.com/XinqiSu/s...23410458382336

    Hang tight everyone.

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    Covid-19: 03/21 (Sat) - Hong Kong News

    Guys... what time do we get the numbers for today? Kinda nervous after yesterday.

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    If you want to rehash the tediously rehashed subject of masks, your thread awaits:

    https://geoexpat.com/forum/342/thread355860-13.html

    please don't clog this thread up, cheers.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr Chips:
    Guys... what time do we get the numbers for today? Kinda nervous after yesterday.
    Informed speculation tells me today's number will be brutal.

    Hearing of three first and second hand contacts who are mentioning people being put into busses.

    Keeping an eye out.
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    What should be done, but won't:

    1. Mandatory shutdown of all businesses except essential ones for 14 days. Speed up relief money for people.
    2. All new arrivals go into mandatory, guarded quarantine (stop trying to fix defective bracelet and app--we all know that won't work).
    3. Everyone arriving gets tested. Those with symptoms, to hospital.
    4. Those who are not HK Citizen or Perm resident have to return to where they departed from unless showing symptoms.
    5. Start TODAY.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SirNotAppearing:
    What should be done, but won't:

    1. Mandatory shutdown of all businesses except essential ones for 14 days. Speed up relief money for people.
    2. All new arrivals go into mandatory, guarded quarantine (stop trying to fix defective bracelet and app--we all know that won't work).
    3. Everyone arriving gets tested. Those with symptoms, to hospital.
    4. Those who are not HK Citizen or Perm resident have to return to where they departed from unless showing symptoms.
    5. Start TODAY.
    Actually if the numbers keep rising they will do this. Which is pretty f'ing annoying given that the HK people are mostly doing the right thing but the incoming folks are not.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SirNotAppearing:
    What should be done, but won't:

    1. Mandatory shutdown of all businesses except essential ones for 14 days. Speed up relief money for people.
    2. All new arrivals go into mandatory, guarded quarantine (stop trying to fix defective bracelet and app--we all know that won't work).
    3. Everyone arriving gets tested. Those with symptoms, to hospital.
    4. Those who are not HK Citizen or Perm resident have to return to where they departed from unless showing symptoms.
    5. Start TODAY.
    1. is unnecessary if 2-5 are done properly. It’s already a good sign that a significant amount of people are getting sent to hospital directly from the airport (though they already had symptoms and really shouldn’t fly!). I suppose in the next few days quite a few cases will be picked up from people self quarantining. The main issue are the folks who rushed back before mandatory self quarantine on Thursday.

    (PS: @shri would it be possible to reopen today’s global thread please?)
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    Covid-19: 03/21 (Sat) - Hong Kong News

    The worst thing is if the behaviour doesn’t change from the minority what we will end up with is full lockdown HK style. It’s bad enough with instant fines in France and drones in Spain. I shudder to think how it would operate in HK

    How about a mandatory and punitive prison sentence for anyone not self quarantining?

    Not that I am a fan of this particularly but given the propensity of near 100% mask wearing I wouldn’t mind betting that there would be society self policing developing if there was a ratting phone line.

    My point really is cases are on the up again. Either society acts again or the government will

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    The sub-editor, a Canadian who works on the Pearl News team, reportedly met up with a freelance South China Morning Post journalist in Lan Kwai Fong last Friday, before she was diagnosed with Covid-19.

    The SCMP journalist's diagnosis forced the temporary closure of the newspaper's Causeway Bay headquarters and an office in Wong Chuk Hang.

    The TVB employee continued to attend work this week. TVB says it's arranging tests on 13 staff who are considered to be close contacts of the sub-editor at private hospitals.
    TVB, Lam Kwai Fong, SCMP..

    https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/compone...2-20200321.htm
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    Now News reports that a taxi driver tested positive, he drove to/from the airport at least twice a day. Wore a mask so hopefully didn’t infect anybody else but they mentioned how passengers did not always do so.

    Someone earlier mentioned the risk of people infecting cab drivers, bus drivers on their way to self quarantine... I think this is the first such case...

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