By Daisy CL Mandap
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| Penny's Bay will stop taking in FDHs for quarantine starting Monday |
From Monday, the Penny’s Bay Quarantine
Centre will no longer accommodate foreign domestic helpers coming to Hong Kong from overseas.
Instead, the Regala Skycity
Hotel on Lantau will be added to the list of quarantine facilities for FDHs
from next month. Booking for the 1,138 rooms at the hotel will open this coming Friday,
Dec 31.
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The two other designated quarantine
hotels for helpers are Rambler Garden Hotel in Tsing Yi and Courtyard by
Marriott in Shatin.
According to a government
statement, the rooms at Penny’s Bay will be reserved for its response to the
rapidly increasing number of Omicron cases coming from abroad.
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Currently, travelers arriving
from countries where Omicron has been detected, including most countries in
Africa, the United States and the United Kingdom, must spend the first four
days of their 21-day quarantine at Penny’s Bay before they are moved to a hotel
of their choice.
All helpers who are due to remain in quarantine
at Penny's Bay on or after Jan 5 will be transferred to the Regala in phases starting Jan 1 , the
government said.
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Those who have already booked places at Penny's Bay and are due to check in before Jan 1 will be moved to Regala in phases. Those who are due to move into Penny's Bay after Jan 1 will be taken directly to Regala on arrival in Hong Kong.
Officials added that they
were in discussions with a fourth hotel for it to be designated as a quarantine
facility for helpers.
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Earlier, Secretary for Health
Sophia Chan visited Penny’s Bay to check on preparations being made there in
tackling the emerging threat from the Omicron variant of the coronavirus.
She received a briefing from
various government departments on the current operation of the facility,
including the number of available units, latest occupancy rate, and the
enhancement of cleaning operations so as to increase the turnover rate of the
rooms.
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Chan said the number of
Omicron cases in Hong Kong has been on the rise, citing figures from the Centre
for Health Protection showing that over 90 percent of confirmed patients recorded
on Dec 26 and 27 carried the highly transmissible variant.
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