Wednesday 13 July 2022

Quarantine bites back | Hong Kong (and China) the only places still requiring quarantine

From here. The only quarantine countries are in salmon colour. 

On her way back from Portugal, J is at the end of her quarantine in a hotel by the airport. Yesterday failed the last PCR test, so has extended quarantine.  I was cursing Hong Kong as the only place in the world with quarantine requirements. Thought I’d better check. That’s the chart above. I was a tiny bit wrong.  Apart from us here in China and Hong Kong, it’s Ukraine and Cameroon still demand quarantine. Everywhere else has no quarantine. Some, the light Green, require testing, that’s it. 

By the way, the hotel doesn’t sell her any beer or wine, and the food is pretty horrid. Before Covid this was a pretty good hotel, and I, sure they had room service for anything you wanted. Not now. For the ubiquitous excuse: “can’t do, coz Covid”. 

“Dinner”at the quarantine hotel

By the way (2): there’s hardly any mention of vaccines any more, in our government messaging. It’s all Testing and quarantine.