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Hong Kong Outbreak Ensnares Expats With Hundreds Quarantined Bloomberg 3/12/2021 (Bloomberg) Alarm spread among Hong Kong’s business and expatriate community as a coronavirus outbreak linked to a gym widened and hundreds of people including children were told to go to government centers for quarantine that can last 14 days. The Department of Health reported 47 new cases linked to the gym, Ursus Fitness, on Friday. Seven were connected to staff and their close contacts, while the remaining 40 were customers. Confirmed cases tied to the gym in Sai Ying Pun, a bustling neighborhood on Hong Kong Island, stand at 64. “We can’t say the outbreak is under control, I can’t predict how bad it will be,” Department of Health official Chuang Shuk-kwan said at a briefing Friday. “We are still tracing the contacts.” ....