More than 100,000 mainland, Taiwan and Macau, visitors quarantined since outbreak began

Mainland, Taiwan and Macau, visitors ordered into quarantine in Hong Kong as of Monday, May 4, adds up to 103,543 the Secretary for Food and Health, Sophia Chan, said today.

Quarantine orders were also served on 69,685 people arriving in Hong Kong from overseas.
Since March 25, compulsory 14-day quarantine was imposed on everyone arriving from or having stayed in Macau and Taiwan in the past 14 days before arrival in Hong Kong, in addition to those arriving from the mainland. 

Also, from March 19, except for those exempted, everyone arriving at Hong Kong from places outside China are subject to compulsory quarantine for 14 days.

As of May 4, four people who violated quarantine orders were respectively sentenced to imprisonment ranging from 10 days to three months by magistrates' courts, Chan said.

Besides, 56 individuals left their dwelling places before the quarantine orders ended, and were stopped by the Immigration Department at border control points.

The secretary for health, was responding to a question by Dr Pierre Chan.