Hong Kong Hotel Quarantined
Posted by Joelseah on May 3, 2009
Read in the papers about the Metropark Hotel in Wan Chai, Hong Kong. Apparently, there was a Mexican guest staying in the hotel who happened to be Asia’s first confirmed H1N1 case (The Swine flu has since been renamed as Influenza A, the virus is known as the H1N1 virus).
So the police have sealed off the hotel, and ordered approximately 200 guests and 100 staff to stay in the hotel for the next seven days. Guests who were out of the hotel when the lockdown began were told that if they re-entered the hotel, they would not be allowed to leave. So many of them are kinda stranded outside the hotel since their luggages and passports are inside the hotel.
Kinda interesting that the Hong Kong authorities are taking such actions. What’s gonna happen to those who were in the same flight or public transport as the Mexican tourist? Considering that Influenza A is most infectious at the beginning, will they hunt down all those who could have been in contact and quarantine them too? *ponder*
Here’s another interesting sidenote: You might remember the Sars outbreak in 2003? According to the papers, the scene of the Sars outbreak took place at another Metropark hotel. That time, a doctor from Guangzhou who treated Sars patient in China had travelled to Hong Kong and stayed at the Metropole in Kowloon. Needless to say, he infected a number of people there, including three woman from Singapore. That hotel has since been renamed as Metropark Hotel Kowloon.
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