Hong Kong will quarantine all arrivals to the city from Thursday and expects to expand school closures beyond April as it seeks to control the number of coronavirus cases in the city, chief executive Carrie Lam said on Tuesday.
The city’s Centre for Health Protection on Monday warned of a “second wave” of coronavirus infections after the majority of recent cases were found among people returning from overseas. The city has so far recorded 157 cases of Covid-19.
The measures are an extension to quarantine requirements already in place for arrivals from mainland China, South Korea, dozens of countries in Europe and to upcoming restrictions on those entering from the UK and US. The new restrictions will not apply to arrivals from Taiwan or Macau.