Hong Kong leader seeks to allay concerns about child separations in Covid quarantine
Carrie Lam denies there is deliberate policy to separate children from parents as US consulate says it will raise issue ‘at highest level’
Hong Kong’s leader, Carrie Lam, has responded to concerns that young children are being separated from their parents in quarantine centres as the city seeks to control its latest Covid-19 outbreak.
More than 120 cases have been recorded so far in a cluster linked to a high-end Hong Kong gym popular with the expat and finance community. It has prompted the temporary closure of the US consulate, sudden lockdowns of residential buildings for mass testing, and hundreds have been quarantined, giving rise to allegations of alarming family separations.