With all of our own problems it is easy to forget those members of our community that live across the border on the mainland. As this article from the SCMP highlights, many of those children who regularly need to cross the border to attend school will now face the problems of quarantine.
The fate of some 27,000 Hong Kong cross-border pupils living in mainland China was in limbo, as the education minister said on Friday that it could not be guaranteed whether they would be exempted from quarantine rules amid the coronavirus pandemic when classes resumed in late May.
Although Hong Kong’s government last week decided to exempt these cross-border students from a 14-day mandatory quarantine period when entering the city, a similar rule had so far not been lifted by the Shenzhen authorities.
That means even if they could enter Hong Kong without undergoing quarantine, the students would be required to do so upon returning to their home on the mainland and therefore would not be able to return to school in the city the next day.
One hopes that something can be done quickly to help these students.
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