Coronavirus Hong Kong: aircrew quarantined at Penny’s Bay get Christmas packages from volunteer groups
- Resilience Deliveries, a ‘crew for crew’ organisation made up of volunteers and charitable groups, sends packages to crew members confined at quarantine facility so they will not feel alone during Christmas
- Hong Kong Community Foundation’s Daryl Ng says he hopes the packages can bring joy and comfort to those in quarantine
Hundreds of local and foreign aircrew confined at a Hong Kong government quarantine facility have received gifts and necessities to ease the pain of spending Christmas alone.
Resilience Deliveries, a “crew for crew” organisation made up of volunteers and charitable groups, sent packages with Christmas decorations, handwritten cards and treats to crew members in Penny’s Bay Quarantine Centre on Tuesday.
Archana Perinchery, who founded the organisation in November, told the Post on Thursday that she wanted crew members who found themselves unexpectedly stuck in quarantine and felt anxious to know that they were not alone.
“We feel for them and we are thinking of them,” she said.
According to the Department of Health, 767 people were compulsorily isolated at 617 rooms at the Penny’s Bay facility as of 9am on Thursday.
This follows a government requirement that all inbound visitors from over 90 destinations deemed high risk undergo 21 days of quarantine upon entering Hong Kong to prevent the coronavirus’ more transmissible Omicron variant from creeping into the community.
The previous seven-day isolation period at Penny’s Bay has been shortened to four starting from Thursday, but arrivals are still required to complete the remaining 14-day confinement at a government-approved hotel.
