Coronavirus Hong Kong: 800 quarantine rooms for domestic helpers gone within minutes of becoming available

A Hong Kong quarantine facility offering 800 places for the swelling number of foreign domestic workers headed back to the city was fully booked within minutes of its online reservation system opening on Tuesday morning.Users were allowed to start waiting 45 minutes before the bookings opened for the spots dedicated to inbound workers – mainly arrivals from the Philippines and Indonesia – at the government’s Penny’s Bay quarantine facility.Hong Kong confirmed two new Covid-19 infections…

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