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The number of quarantine rooms for domestic helpers in Hong Kong will jump by 50 per cent from next month, with a hotel in Tsing Yi adding 500 more slots to the existing government scheme. Labour chief Law Chi-kwong on Saturday said authorities were making the move after taking into account the improving Covid-19 situation in the Philippines and Indonesia, the two countries from which most of Hong Kong’s 370,000 helpers come. The addition of the rooms at the Rambler Garden Hotel was also aimed at alleviating the pressure faced by local households struggling to hire helpers, he said in...
