City leader Carrie Lam says the city has increased its isolation capacity, and no longer needs the public and transitional housing units to accommodate patients.
Thanks to climate change, Hong Kong on is track to become hotter and dryer in the future, putting our reservoir supplies at risk. Yet instead of doing more to save water, consumption has hit new highs since the start of the pandemic.
Hong Kong police arrested a 27-year-old man on Thursday (March 17) on suspicion of throwing faeces inside an isolation facility for Covid-19 patients in Fanling. A force insider said the suspect, who claimed to be a waiter, was undergoing quarantine from last Saturday until Tuesday at a room on 39/F of Block 1 in Queen’s Hill Estate, a public housing.
Hong Kong plans to test its entire population for Covid-19 and is currently in talks with mainland China regarding the details of the operation, which would require assistance from outside the city, Sing Tao Daily, a local media outlet, reported.
Hong Kong is focusing on overcoming bottlenecks in its virus-testing capacity and quarantine facilities to curb the city s worst COVID-19 outbreak, with initiatives such as procuring 100 million self-test kits and adding thousands of quarantine rooms.