Hong Kong shortens quarantine for residents, staff of care homes

 

Bloomberg

Hong Kong will shorten the quarantine period for residents and staff of residential care homes for the elderly and those with disabilities because isolation beds will run out in days, the city’s welfare secretary said on his blog.
The quarantine period for home-care residents and staff has been cut to seven days from two weeks if their test results are negative for Covid-19, according to Secretary for Labour and Welfare Law Chi-kwong. Under current rules, they are kept in isolation at the government’s Asia World Expo quarantine facility. The quarantine changes come as the city contends with a record surge in Covid-19 infections that saw Hong Kong register 1,514 cases and threatens its Covid Zero strategy. With isolation facilities filling up amid the worsening outbreak, the territory’s government has asked mainland China for help to build quarantine facilities, more test kits and expert help to analyse virus strains.

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