Fascinating to be back in Hong Kong again.
Arriving at Chek Lap Kok was like SARS revisited. Every airport worker is wearing a face-mask, infra-red cameras are scanning new arrivals, bilingual Swine Fever information pamphlets are left at every flat service and all arrivals have to fill in "I haven't got Swine Fever" declaration form.
A group of some 280 people were quarantined for seven days in the Metropol Hotel in Wan Chai after a Mexican guest fell sick with Swine Fever. Mass celebrations for them on their exit last night. Road were blocked throughout this normally notoriously busy thoroughfare.
Dr Gloves is late so I skip over to Burger King in need of beef. We head over to his swanky pad in Sai Kung. We head in Auntie J.s open top car to the village square for some serious snacks at Jaspars - an excellent modern bistro with a fusion menu. After a long time in the Indian subcontinent, it seems like a gastro paradise. Good food and pleasant company
I attempt to turn on my laptop but it fails to boot this morning. This is coming from Sniff's flat before heading on to the Sony centre in the the metropolis of Mong Kok. It should be under warranty, but i predict i will still be a charged a phenominal wad of cash, but will they be able to sort it in 14 days?
"The government has announced that for the first time it's closing a school because of swine flu. This came after three more imported cases of the disease taking the total in Hong Kong so far to 15. The three latest cases are all teenagers who traveled from North America. One of the three, is the relative of an earlier case and attended a school function on Wednesday with some 200 other students. Health workers are trying to identify her close contacts and if necessary give them tamiflu. The school, the United Christian College in Kowloon East, has been advised to suspend classes for 14 days."
ReplyDeleteCould this be the first of many?
Singapore has reported in first case of Swine Flu today also.
Oink! Oink!