Hong Kong is looking for secure and remote sites to quarantine people that may have the coronavirus in a bid to stop it spreading further.
Foto: AP Photo/Vincent Yu Celebrations to mark the first anniversary of the opening of the theme park in Hong Kong Disneyland in September 2006.
The government wants to build quarantine units on a vacant site that the resort had planned on using for an expansion.Hong Kong has confirmed 56 cases of the coronavirus and one death from it, while the virus has now infected more than 67,000 people and killed more than 1,500, mostly in mainland China.
that the resort is letting the government use a vacant, 60-hectare site which had been reserved for an expansion to the theme park. This would be enough space for around 600 quarantine units, the Post reported.Foto: An exhibition center converted into a hospital in Wuhan on February 5, 2020.sourceSTR/AFP/Getty Images. The vast majority of cases are in mainland China, though cases have spread to at least 26 other countries.
But the move was proposed by lawmakers this week, who said that people from Hong Kong who were in China’s Hubei province should be brought back the city and housed in places like Disneyland hotels,Foto: Employees put up a sign outside the Hong Kong Disneyland saying that the theme park has been close in light of the coronavirus outbreak on January 26, 2020.sourceREUTERS/James Pomfret
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