Anyone testing positive for Covid-19, including infants and children, are put into isolation facilities with no family contact allowed
Angie, 3, cries as she receives a dose of Sinovac Biotech's CoronaVac COVID-19 vaccine, following the coronavirus disease outbreak, at a community vaccination centre in Hong Kong, China, on February 25 2022. Picture: REUTERS/TYRONE SIUGuada, a mother of two young children and pregnant with twins, cries herself to sleep at night, worried that Hong Kong’s severe Covid-19 rules will separate her from her kids or force her to give birth alone.
“Imagine the stress I’m having right now ... scared of having to give birth alone, scared of them taking my daughters away, taking my babies away, scared that if I’m positive, they are going to take me away,” said Guada, an Argentinian who has lived in Hong Kong for three-and-a-half years and has two girls aged three and five. She declined to give her last name due to the sensitivity of the situation.
Diplomats in the global financial hub say they have repeatedly raised concerns with the government over the issue of parents being separated from children in a city with some of the world’s most stringent coronavirus measures.Authorities have said they are overwhelmed and cannot accommodate parents staying with infected infants as hospitals operate at maximum or over capacity with close to 10,000 new daily infections from nearly zero at the start of the year.
Medical clinic Central Health said isolating infants presented a “significant risk” of child fatalities “as parents may delay taking their children to hospital during critical periods when intervention could save lives.” The government is building tens of thousands of new isolation units, with the help of the Chinese government, compounding worries families will be separated.
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