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https://www.theglobeandmail.com/wor...ily-held-in-filthy-hong-kong-quarantine-camp/
A Canadian bank executive has been caught up in a debate over Hong Kong’s quarantine policy for travellers from Africa and the Indian sub-continent after returning to the wealthy financial centre from South Africa, only to be sent with his family to a dirty police camp for 14 days.
Colin Embree is the head of Asia for National Bank of Canada. He normally lives in a 2,000-square-foot apartment in the city – but he, his wife and their young son are now in Pat Heung, a training centre for a police youth group with hostel-style accommodation. It is air conditioned, although the beds are plywood and covered with a thin mattress. Before staff provided a mop and bucket, the floors left his two-year-old son’s feet blackened and covered in debris. The pillow was mouldy and a plastic bowl they were given to eat with was speckled with a black substance.
“The filth was unbelievable,” Mr. Embree said, adding: “We have no business being here.” His wife, Vega Hall-Martin Embree, is South African, and the family spent seven weeks there, much of it under a strict lockdown, before returning home to Hong Kong, where they tested negative for COVID-19.
They were sent to the police camp under a local policy that has imposed special requirements on people from a small number of developing countries.
A Canadian bank executive has been caught up in a debate over Hong Kong’s quarantine policy for travellers from Africa and the Indian sub-continent after returning to the wealthy financial centre from South Africa, only to be sent with his family to a dirty police camp for 14 days.
Colin Embree is the head of Asia for National Bank of Canada. He normally lives in a 2,000-square-foot apartment in the city – but he, his wife and their young son are now in Pat Heung, a training centre for a police youth group with hostel-style accommodation. It is air conditioned, although the beds are plywood and covered with a thin mattress. Before staff provided a mop and bucket, the floors left his two-year-old son’s feet blackened and covered in debris. The pillow was mouldy and a plastic bowl they were given to eat with was speckled with a black substance.
“The filth was unbelievable,” Mr. Embree said, adding: “We have no business being here.” His wife, Vega Hall-Martin Embree, is South African, and the family spent seven weeks there, much of it under a strict lockdown, before returning home to Hong Kong, where they tested negative for COVID-19.
They were sent to the police camp under a local policy that has imposed special requirements on people from a small number of developing countries.
