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Hong Kong police have arrested an elderly man who escaped from compulsory quarantine in a Tsim Sha Tsui hotel.

The 75-year-old man was detained in Central on Monday evening after spending about a day on the run, according to a police source.

The hotel notified the Department of Health on Saturday that the man had stepped out of his room and lingered in the corridor without permission, contravening the compulsory quarantine order.Under an established mechanism, the Centre for Health Protection reported the case to the compliance team of the designated quarantine hotel scheme, a department spokesman said.

Surveillance footage showed he left the hotel at about 11am and walked to Nathan Road along Hillwood Road. The department alerted police and a search was launched.

 

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