Hong Kong authorities have been strict so far. They are now uncompromising. Anyone disembarking in the small semi-autonomous territory of south-eastern China, with the exception of those from Taiwan, will be confined and monitored in real time by an electronic bracelet. This type of techniques “Intelligent” has already been tested in prisons since the spring of 2019, and on February 3 the authorities indicated that they were going to equip quarantined people arriving from Hubei province, from where the virus originated. The device is currently deployed on a large scale in the region which has been living in a health psychosis since January.
It had succeeded, at the cost of almost self-containment of the 7.5 million inhabitants and the closure of border points with mainland China, to curb the number of cases of Covid-19 to less than 150, with recent weeks less than 10 new cases per day. But the recent upsurge in cases
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Anne-Sophie Labadie correspondent in Hongkong
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