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| CE Lam vows full crackdown on quarantine violators |
As the as the clock ticked towards a 14-day ban on non-residents, Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam has warned violators of
home quarantine orders that their acts are illegal, and that they could be
arrested and held without bail
Lam announced the city's shutdown on Monday, after the second wave of
infections in the city were found to have been imported cases, or linked to
people with recent travel history.
All foreigners will be barred from entering Hong Kong starting at midnight tonight, Mar 25, while everyone allowed to get in - residents and those arriving directly from Macau and Taiwan - will be put under mandatory quarantine for 14 days.
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Lam said it was “very disappointing and distressing” to know
people were violating quarantine rules.
“These people who openly violated the mandatory home
quarantine order will increase the risk of virus transmission,” Lam said,
calling the behavior “very irresponsible.”
She mentioned a quarantine violator who was prosecuted in Tuen Mun court earlier, and held without bail.
“We appeal to these groups of people not to defy the law. Is
it worth having a criminal record for going out once?,” she asked.
Her warning came an uproar caused by pictures and videos
showing people in home quarantine straying out of their registered addresses to
dine out or buy daily supplies at supermarkets.
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| The 13-year-old who violated her quarantine was filmed eating in a restaurant while wearing her wristband |
A13-year-old girl who was filmed dining in a Japanese restaurant in Shatin with her uncle while wearing her tracking wristband was
sent by police to a government quarantine facility.
A male diner who spotted the girl followed her and her uncle outside, then stopped a taxi driver from giving them a ride. The pair ran into the Courtyard by Marriott hotel in Shatin where the girl was arrested by police.
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Three other violators of the quarantine were caught by
police within hours of their arrival in Hong Kong
and sent immediately to government quarantine facilities or hospitals.
Meanwhile, fast-food giant McDonald’s has suspended dine-in
services after 6pm in all of its 244 outlets in Hong Kong
for two weeks, in response to the continuous spread of the coronavirus.
McDonald’s said that from Mar 25, operations will be limited
to delivery and takeaway after 6pm, while delivery fees will be waived from 6pm
to 12 midnight.
Dine-in service will resume at 4am each day in its 24-hour
locations while all other outlets will restart at their normal opening hours.
The new patients included six Filipinos who worked in Lan
Kwai Fong. Five are musicians, and the sixth is a waitress. Also among the new
cases are a newly-arrived Filipina domestic worker.
Of the new cases, 19 had traveled abroad recently, including
a Cathay Pacific flight attendant and a tour guide.
As the number of patients in Hong Kong
increased, the World Health Organization warned the pandemic is accelerating
and urged governments to take “aggressive and targeted tactics” to contain its
spread.
WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus issued the
warning as the death toll from Covid-19 kept rising. He said it had taken 67
days from the first reported case to the first 100,000 infections, and just 11
days for the number to soar to the second 100,000.
“[It was] just four days for the third 100,000 cases. You
can see how the virus is accelerating,” he said on Tuesday. “But we’re not
prisoners to statistics. We’re not helpless bystanders. We can change the
trajectory of this pandemic.”
As of this writing, the global tally of infected persons had
risen to nearly 380,000 with total deaths approaching 17,000.
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