The eight-hour airport check: Testing booths, tracking bracelets and an interminable wait before you can get the all-clear to enter the country… how Hong Kong is screening all arrivals to keep a lid on coronavirus
- Photographer records eight hour ordeal as she travels via airport into Hong Kong
- Laurel Chor, 30, was given a tracking bracelet and bussed to a testing centre
- Only residents like Miss Chor are allowed into Hong Kong amid the pandemic
- Here’s how to help people impacted by Covid-19
With testing booths, tracking bracelets and an eight-hour wait for results, this is the ordeal faced by arrivals at Hong Kong Airport.
The UK may still be allowing passengers to stroll in untested, but those entering the ex-British territory get a rather stricter welcome.
Photographer Laurel Chor, 30, recorded her arrival yesterday, starting with her being given a tracking bracelet in case she broke the mandatory 14-day quarantine.
Only residents like Miss Chor are allowed into Hong Kong. She said there was ‘an atmosphere of patient cooperation’
She was given a tracking bracelet in case she broke the mandatory 14-day quarantine
Miss Chor is pictured above spitting into a tube in a private booth, left, while the testing centre booths are seen right
She was handed a thermometer and a temperature tracking table to fill in, then bussed to a nearby testing centre, where she spat into a tube in a private booth.
After eight-hour wait – so long she was given sandwiches, digestives and a bottle of water – she got the all-clear.
Only residents like Miss Chor are allowed into Hong Kong. She said there was ‘an atmosphere of patient cooperation’.
She is pictured above waiting for her number to be called. The UK may still be allowing passengers to stroll in untested, but those entering the ex-British territory get a rather stricter welcome
After eight-hour wait – so long she was given sandwiches, digestives and a bottle of water – she got the all-clear