Hong Kong is to impose a mandatory fourteen-day quarantine on all visitors from mainland China as it battles to prevent the spread of a coronavirus outbreak.
Hong Kong, which has twenty-one confirmed cases and one fatality, suffered three hundred deaths in the Sars outbreak in 2002-03.
There are twenty-four thousand, three hundred confirmed coronavirus cases and four hundred and ninety deaths on the mainland.
Those figures included an additional four thousand cases and sixty-five deaths on Tuesday.
Chief Executive Carrie Lam said anyone arriving from the mainland, including foreigners, would be quarantined for fourteen days from Saturday, although she did not say how this would be imposed.
It is unclear where the quarantines would take place or whether Hong Kong residents could spend the time at home.
Hong Kong will, however, close the Ocean and Kai Tak cruise terminals.
Comments are closed for this post.