Hong Kong Birthday Bash Lands 30 Officials - Senior ministers and 20% of legislature in quarantine camp with no wifi

[orhneeorh]

More than two dozen Hong Kong officials have been ordered to quarantine due to possible Covid exposure, as a scandal over a large birthday party they attended despite the government’s own pandemic warnings widened.

All of the some 100 guests at a celebration thrown for a representative for a mainland Chinese agency were being sent to the quarantine camp in Penny’s Bay, local media including South China Morning Post reported Friday. Some of Hong Kong’s most senior politicians along with more than 20% of its new “patriots-only” legislature will be confined to 200-square-foot (20-square-meter) rooms with no wifi access, just as the government fights an outbreak of the infectious omicron variant.

Those in quarantine include Financial Services Secretary Christopher Hui, Police Chief Raymond Siu, Immigration Director Au Ka-wang, Home Affairs Secretary Caspar Tsui and Independent Commission Against Corruption Commissioner Simon Peh.

Some 30 government officials gathered for the birthday of Witman Hung, a representative for Hong Kong at the Shenzhen Qianhai Authority, on Monday, despite Health Secretary Sophia Chan’s public call to avoid mass gatherings days before. Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Thursday said she was “disappointed” in those officials and announced a probe into the party where at least one guest later tested preliminary positive.

The news came one day after Lam imposed strict pandemic restrictions to stop the local spread of the infectious omicron variant to uphold the city’s Covid Zero strategy of eliminating the virus from its borders.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...ned-as-party-scandal-widens?srnd=premium-asia

 

[Zinna]

Wah time for the honkies to stand up and riot when all the big figures are quarantine

 

[Hiling care]

More than two dozen Hong Kong officials have been ordered to quarantine due to possible Covid exposure, as a scandal over a large birthday party they attended despite the government’s own pandemic warnings widened.

All of the some 100 guests at a celebration thrown for a representative for a mainland Chinese agency were being sent to the quarantine camp in Penny’s Bay, local media including South China Morning Post reported Friday. Some of Hong Kong’s most senior politicians along with more than 20% of its new “patriots-only” legislature will be confined to 200-square-foot (20-square-meter) rooms with no wifi access, just as the government fights an outbreak of the infectious omicron variant.

Those in quarantine include Financial Services Secretary Christopher Hui, Police Chief Raymond Siu, Immigration Director Au Ka-wang, Home Affairs Secretary Caspar Tsui and Independent Commission Against Corruption Commissioner Simon Peh.

Some 30 government officials gathered for the birthday of Witman Hung, a representative for Hong Kong at the Shenzhen Qianhai Authority, on Monday, despite Health Secretary Sophia Chan’s public call to avoid mass gatherings days before. Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Thursday said she was “disappointed” in those officials and announced a probe into the party where at least one guest later tested preliminary positive.

The news came one day after Lam imposed strict pandemic restrictions to stop the local spread of the infectious omicron variant to uphold the city’s Covid Zero strategy of eliminating the virus from its borders.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...ned-as-party-scandal-widens?srnd=premium-asia

For once the tiongs are doing the right thing.

 

[jinmuddy]

For once the tiongs are doing the right thing.

Should just round them up face the firing squad swah.

 

[princessreiko]

 

[orhneeorh]

Hong Kong to Send All Partygoers to Government Quarantine​

Friday, January 7, 2022 05:30 PM

(Bloomberg) --
Hong Kong will label all participants in a birthday party as close contacts and send them to government quarantine after finding one new preliminary positive case, health official Chuang Shuk-kwan says at a briefing.

• About 170 people attended the party at different intervals; ~60 of them have already been sent to quarantine
• NOTE: Hong Kong Birthday Bash Lands 30 Officials in Quarantine
• Authorities confirmed first Covid-19 case from the party
• Hong Kong reports 33 Covid cases on Friday, including 26 imported
  • Finds 30 preliminary positive cases, with at least one of which with unknown source of infection
• Hong Kong has found at least three transmission chains and does not rule out hidden transmission in the community, health official Edwin Tsui adds