Coming to Hong Kong, foreign domestic workers are quarantined in hotels, the costs must be borne by the employer

EVERY foreign domestic worker (PRT), including Indonesian migrant workers (PMI) who have just arrived in Hong Kong will be quarantined for 14 days at the hotel. This policy was conveyed by the Secretary for Food and Health, Sophia Chan, on Tuesday (7/7/2020).

"Their employers have to pay for their tests, and they stay in a hotel for 14 days," wrote Hong Kong public broadcaster Radio Television (RTHK).

The quarantine policy at hotels, said Chan, was because the flats where employers lived in Hong Kong were on average small. Thus, by being quarantined in the hotel they have one room of their own and do not have to share a toilet, as required by the Ministry of Health.

"Sophia Chan said, foreign domestic workers also need to do a test that declares themselves negative for Covid-19 before they are allowed to enter Hong Kong," wrote RTHK, quoting Sophia Chan.

The policy was also taken because there were confirmed cases of COVID-19 involving people who had come from the Philippines and Indonesia in the last 2 weeks. (source: RTHK / news.gov.hk / photo: BBC)