Coronavirus: a further reopening of borders? Hong Kong weighs converting temporary Covid facilities into quarantine sites for those headed for mainland China | South China Morning Post


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Hong Kong may convert its temporary hospitals and isolation facilities for Covid-19 patients into quarantine sites for travellers headed to mainland China, as part of plans to reopen the border between both sides. Speaking to the press after a community visit in Sham Shui Po, Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu on Saturday said the government had been communicating continuously with mainland counterparts, hoping to “minimise the inconvenience of quarantine caused to residents returning to the mainland”. Lee said one of the ways, as suggested by some civic groups, was to transform some of the city’s temporary hospitals into facilities for...