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Did Woody got swine flu ?
7 days is THE MAGIC figure !
Hong Kong hotel quarantine: Chocolates & Calvin Klein undies for your troubles
Curious what it's like inside the MetroPark Hotel, where Hong Kong quarantined some 350 guests after a guest was confirmed as having the A(H1N1) virus, or swine flu?
Shi Wenjing, a 27-year-old translator from Shanghai who checked in at the MetroPark on the same day as the guest in question, gives us a glimpse in a dispatch in today's Wall Street Journal. She wrote about her experience on a computer "lent to her by the Journal," the article says.
On the night Wenjing was supposed to fly back home so she could participate in a friend's wedding, the hotel was quarantined. She's stuck there for seven days. From her Journal dispatch:
"The first night was filled with anxiety and all kinds of medical checkups, and I didn’t sleep well. But the Hong Kong government conducted the tests quickly and distributed Tamiflu...The following morning, the Hong Kong government had a conference for all of us under quarantine in the hotel, and it was made clear there was no getting around being 'detained'."
For their troubles, she said the Hong Kong government sent the guests chocolates, Calvin Klein underwear and baskets of fruit.
The BBC also has this dispatch from a couple stuck at the hotel.
Readers: What would you do to pass the time if you were quarantined in a hotel far from home?
(Photo by Mike Clarke/AFP/Getty Images)
7 days is THE MAGIC figure !
Hong Kong hotel quarantine: Chocolates & Calvin Klein undies for your troubles
Curious what it's like inside the MetroPark Hotel, where Hong Kong quarantined some 350 guests after a guest was confirmed as having the A(H1N1) virus, or swine flu?
Shi Wenjing, a 27-year-old translator from Shanghai who checked in at the MetroPark on the same day as the guest in question, gives us a glimpse in a dispatch in today's Wall Street Journal. She wrote about her experience on a computer "lent to her by the Journal," the article says.
On the night Wenjing was supposed to fly back home so she could participate in a friend's wedding, the hotel was quarantined. She's stuck there for seven days. From her Journal dispatch:
"The first night was filled with anxiety and all kinds of medical checkups, and I didn’t sleep well. But the Hong Kong government conducted the tests quickly and distributed Tamiflu...The following morning, the Hong Kong government had a conference for all of us under quarantine in the hotel, and it was made clear there was no getting around being 'detained'."
For their troubles, she said the Hong Kong government sent the guests chocolates, Calvin Klein underwear and baskets of fruit.
The BBC also has this dispatch from a couple stuck at the hotel.
Readers: What would you do to pass the time if you were quarantined in a hotel far from home?
(Photo by Mike Clarke/AFP/Getty Images)
