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Outdoor recreation centre in Hong Kong to be converted into monkeypox quarantine facility
- Health officials say Sai Kung Outdoor Recreation Centre to be repurposed into quarantine facility for close contacts of monkeypox patients from Tuesday
- Move part of government response measures triggered after city confirmed first monkeypox case last week
Published: 12:45am, 13 Sep, 2022
An outdoor recreation centre is set to be converted into a quarantine facility for close contacts of monkeypox patients after Hong Kong earlier recorded its first confirmed case from overseas.
Health officials on Monday night said the Sai Kung Outdoor Recreation Centre on Hong Kin Road would be repurposed from Tuesday as part of the government’s response plan to prevent the spread of the disease.
Authorities put the strategy into action when a 30-year-old man became the city’s first case of monkeypox last Tuesday after returning to Hong Kong from the Philippines on September 5.
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