Coronavirus: Hong Kong to add more hotel rooms to domestic workers’ quarantine scheme in bid to ease city shortage of home help


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About 100 extra quarantine rooms for domestic workers arriving in Hong Kong have been added to the rooms already available, bringing the total to around 2,000, as the city seeks to ease its shortage of helpers. The Courtyard by Marriott Hong Kong Sha Tin has been added to the scheme, and will provide an additional 500 quarantine rooms at a cost of HK$650 per night. Designated quarantine places for helpers already include the government facility at Penny’s Bay on Lantau Island, and the Rambler Garden Hotel in Tsing Yi, which also provides 500 spaces. But the Silka Tsuen Wan hotel,...