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Hong Kong Data on Hotel Quarantinees Who Test Positive

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Dear Food and Health Bureau,

I believe that Hong Kong should keep everyone safe from COVID. However, decisions about quarantines (length of time and location) should be based on data. The current 21 day quarantine went into effect in December. I'm sure you're keeping excellent data regarding positive COVID cases, so we should have almost 3 month of data around the 21 day quarantine. I would like access to data regarding:

1. People in quarantine testing positive: what day of quarantine they test positive (for example, day 9 of quarantine), what date (for example, 01 March 2021) and what hotel they were staying at (for example, Airport Regal).

Hong Kong is the only country with a 21 day quarantine. This extreme decision should be based on actual Hong Kong data and I would like to see it. Keeping people isolated in a small hotel room for an extended period of time is drastic and negatively impacts them emotionally and financially and it needs to be justified with data. Please show me the data.

Yours faithfully,
C. Tarrant
P.S. I am sending this to the Food and Health Bureau because I noticed that a Dr. Simon Wang sent a similar request to the Department of Health and they replied saying they were forwarding it to FHB.

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Dear Ms Tarrant,

I refer to your preceding email of 18 March 2021.

Please be informed that the Food and Health Bureau does not possess the
requested information. As the subject matter is under the purview of the
Department of Health, we would like to seek your consent for us to
transfer your request and personal information to them for their direct
response.

Please let us have your consent by replying to this email by 29 March
2021. This Office will not further process your request if we do not hear
from you by the aforesaid date. Thank you.

(Cherry WONG)
for Secretary for Food and Health

From: Colleen Tarrant <[FOI #590 email]>
To: FOI requests at Food and Health Bureau <[Food and Health Bureau request email]>,
Date: 18/03/21 05:51 PM
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Hong Kong Data on Hotel
Quarantinees Who Test Positive

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Dear Food and Health Bureau,

I believe that Hong Kong should keep everyone safe from COVID. However,
decisions about quarantines (length of time and location) should be based
on data. The current 21 day quarantine went into effect in December. I'm
sure you're keeping excellent data regarding positive COVID cases, so we
should have almost 3 month of data around the 21 day quarantine. I would
like access to data regarding:

1. People in quarantine testing positive: what day of quarantine they test
positive (for example, day 9 of quarantine), what date (for example, 01
March 2021) and what hotel they were staying at (for example, Airport
Regal).

Hong Kong is the only country with a 21 day quarantine. This extreme
decision should be based on actual Hong Kong data and I would like to see
it. Keeping people isolated in a small hotel room for an extended period
of time is drastic and negatively impacts them emotionally and financially
and it needs to be justified with data. Please show me the data.

Yours faithfully,
C. Tarrant
P.S. I am sending this to the Food and Health Bureau because I noticed
that a Dr. Simon Wang sent a similar request to the Department of Health
and they replied saying they were forwarding it to FHB.

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Dear Ms Tarrant,

We refer to our preceding email of 22 March 2021.

As we did not receive any reply from you by 29 March 2021, please be
informed that we will not further process your request. Thank you.

(Cherry WONG)
for Secretary for Food and Health

From: Enquiry FHB/FHB/HKSARG
To: Colleen Tarrant <[FOI #590 email]>,
Date: 22/03/2021 17:18
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Hong Kong Data on Hotel
Quarantinees Who Test Positive