Nearly 120 children and teens are currently confined in Hong Kong’s Covid-19 quarantine camps as upset parents question the adequacy of the facilities for young people after a number of them were classified as close contacts of confirmed cases.
While the Department of Health has long allowed parents or caretakers to isolate with children under the age of 16, officials are now being urged to permit underage close contacts to quarantine at home or hotels instead. As of Monday, 118 people under the age of 18 are currently in quarantine facilities, which housed 1,378 people as of Sunday, for a rate of 8.5 per cent.