Hong Kong has identified more than 20,000 hotel rooms for quarantine accommodation, leader Carrie Lam said, as property developers piled in to show support for the global financial hub as it battles a surge in Covid-19 cases.
Lam said 21 hotels had expressed interest in turning their facilities into isolation venues, exceeding “by a large margin the government's original target of 7,000 to 10,000 rooms”.
Quarantine facilities in Hong Kong have reached capacity and hospital beds are more than 95 per cent full as cases spiral, with some patients, including elderly, left on beds outside in chilly, sometimes rainy weather.
