Hours without electricity or cellphone reception. No food for an entire day. Unable to leave because of missing documents.
These are among the tales of chaos pouring out of a makeshift quarantine camp in Hong Kong, as one of Asia’s wealthiest cities struggles to house, feed and process some 3,000 people it has forcibly isolated in a desperate bid to stamp out the coronavirus from the Chinese territory of 7.4 million people.
May Ng, 52, was still held at the main Penny’s Bay quarantine center on Thursday even though her detention order — seen by Bloomberg News — said she should’ve departed a day earlier. Staff at the camp told her the Health Department hadn’t provided documents needed for her release, she said.