Hong Kong has experienced its highest daily number of coronavirus cases as thousands of people flew in to avoid self-isolation just as it was starting to return to relative normality
Thousands of students, expats and locals living and working abroad have scrambled back to the trasient city to avoid the new self-isolation rule.
After two long months of isolating, working from home and businesses folding Hong Kong residents were just getting back to normal last week, with only one case a day on 12 and 13 March. Pete Ross, an artist from Hong Kong, told Sky News:"In the last four days Hong Kong has become quite tense again - self-isolating and events being cancelled.
Another Hong Konger said people had started venturing out last week and they had stopped wearing masks, but then"people started coming back from Australia, Europe and the US".Everyone arriving in Hong Kong from 19 March has to have a tracker bracelet applied at the airport
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