HONG KONG - A group of protesters set alight the lobby of a newly built residential building in Hong Kong on Sunday that authorities planned to use as a quarantine facility for the coronavirus outbreak.
The fire was later put out by firefighters and the damage appeared to be confined to the lobby area. Hundreds of riot police also moved in, arresting at least one person. Earlier, hundreds of Hong Kong citizens had blocked roads leading to the building with bricks and other debris, to protest plans to convert the building into a quarantine zone as the number of confirmed cases in the city climbed to six.
Following the protest, the government said it would “cease the related preparation work in Fai Ming Estate.”
Inhumane action.
I missed this news..... classy HKers
Hong Kong protesters are crazy and violent. This city would be destroyed by themselves. By losing the focus from the world, they did it. No one cares about Hong Kong right now.
WatchingHawks If they get infected and all die that's their fault isn't it
'Not in my backyard.' -Thomas Paine. To My Dear Friends in Hong Kong, Never forget you are doing the Lord's work. (The House of Lords, that is.)
我看到的不是示威者，而是恐怖分子。What I saw was not protesters, but terrorists
Stupid people never die
Stupidity.
It is 10 steps from your doorstep and no consultation to them. What do you think?
the quarantine building is right next to their home...
The idea that a quarantine camp be placed in densely public housing estate is inconceivable. The plan is not only kept secret from neighboring residents all along, it is also perceived as life threatening. The location facilitated the spread rather than containment of virus.
See, in a crisis that requires global cooperation, these nuts burn medical emergency buildings.
Hong Kong protesters are racist, supremacist terrorists of the very worst kind. They don't care about people's lives as they have shown countless times.
mainland Chinese gov/China comm party bosses should lose their jobs and possibly heads for their mismanagement. Who in the gov is behind this virus? Dark forces seeking control at work.
The key is not only about looking for places for quarantine. It is about stopping the flow at the source. Hong Kong ppl and medics have been calling for a complete closure of HK-China border control points. Hong Kong Gov ignored the solution. So we are forced to take action.
Your democracy students . They’re your marvellloys monsters
Yea its big brain time
Freedom to torch
When Hong Kong Gov ignored the public voices to locate the quarantine zone near residential area, it’s no surprise for this outcome. We will have no objections if the quarantine zone set near the Government House🤷🏻♀️
Brand_HK hkpoliceforce HongKong government risk the lifes of medical staff without inputting any resources for treatment of WuhanCoronavirus CloseTheBorders or strike2020
What would you do? To turn the whole community to be a quarantine zone or to stop the community to be infected by closing the border? ASK THE CHIEF what they are thinking. They are trying to dry the floor without turning off the taps
Hong Kong has several remote camp sites that can be and have been used for quanrantine purpose. It’s unclear why our government chose to use a property that’s so close to residential areas and schools. We need to question our government’s intention.
Actually it is hard to criticise the fear of the people and their actions against the plan of the guarantinesite where is just a street away from high destiny of a neighbourhood. Given that the WuhanCoronavirus patients often ran away, high risk here
Misleading title.
he camp is too close to the school and residential building.
HKGov is the one to blame in all the unrests. No officials were held accountable for anything happened. Another massacre towards HKGERS in building such a close quarantine building to residents. Why don’t HKGov use officials residence as quarantine to show their credibility?
The Gov't shouldn't have considered to run the quarantine centre in Fanling, right besides the high-density residential estates and schools. There are a lot more choices out there. Incompetent and arrogant government officials just ignore voices of local Hongkong people.
Peaceful protester called by BBC
Democracy moment
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Oh look its the same guys who set fire to the Hong Kong Press building The guys who when disarmed by Hong Kongers were found to be carrying a Police Baton with the identification code of a Chinese mainland police force
Don't you mean: 'Hong Kong Domestic Terrorists commit arson on Quarantine site'?
Panic is already starting. This may get much worse in coming weeks. I hope I'm wrong but I don't think I am.
I really hope the gov step up to severely punish these people. I guess when you don’t like the marks your teachers gave you in school, you just beat them up?
Very mean people. I wonder (not hope) when they get the flu and there is no place to get medical attention, would they regret destroying this and other ones? These people would surely face criminal charges in Canada.
This building is near the residential area and it shares the same road as the residential area. People living near there need to resist in order to stop the government from turning it into quarantine camp or all the residents there will be doomed due to China Pneumonia!
Big brain move here.
This is exactly what China Gov.planned with that Virus Fake news to follow its plan and spread fear among HongKong Demos and revolts! And now it s building quarantines to put all that against China Gov. rising ppl in a so called legal Jails! All just a propaganda mad in china!
So clever 🥴
I recommend you to read the local tweets more updated and accurate reports. It can give a more complete picture.
Outbreak was firstly tamed by local politicians, then regional and few days ago, by WHO spokesperson (Chinese gvt. influenced). That's typical commie modus operandi. Vide Chernobyl explosion. China is evil.
coronavirus quarantaine WuhanVirus
this is very STUPID MOVE..notwithstanding the fact that they will be close to residential area. these are measure to contain an infection. its not like there is going to be a zombie outbreak or something.. i had respect for HongKongProtesters but this is a bad move
HK government is completely useless. They should have shut down the border before the infected sneaked into HK
This quarantine center is close to other residential estates and 2-3schools are nearby. Furnitures are found inside before yesterday government press conference. This is a government without creditability.
Two buildings.
All these excuses for arson...
What !? Idiots
For readers abroad, the “protestors” this time are basically a mix from all walks of the political spectrum, mainly desperate citizens living next to the un-consulted/prep’d quarantine ctr. Pro-hkgov press cert’ed Shut the boarder, Don’t risk contamination
Nice. Next please do the community hospitals and you are all set for disaster if this turns really bad.
Given the high density of Hong Kong, what the regime shud do is shutting the border, NOT finding a quarantine camp which is in a walking distance (500m) from nearby neighbourhoods. Imagine Chernobyl 500m away from your home. Yes, this is how “smart” our “government” is.
The above reply had clearly shown the distance between the quarantine zone and neighbourhood. Don't forget infection of the virus can be airborne, would you fight for your home if your government did that to you and your family?
Why!?
They just don't want any mainland chinese in their country, period.
Putting all hong kong people at risk and refused to shut the Kowloon high speed train. 8 cases confirmed and most are from the high-speed train and create a quarantine building to accept the virus carriers, ridiculous government!
So the so called protesters torch the place because.... China... They have been doing damages and attacking people for weeks now... They are lucky they are in China and not in America or France because then they would have really tasted what means oppression and police brutality
The fanling quarantine site was chosen due to its proximity to the border with China to make it easy to offload wuhan patients, there are many remote and vacant facilities suitable for the job but the gov has reserved them for political prisoners, how sad it ended up for hk 🙁
Hong Kong government do nothing to protect the citizens but keep no barrier to Wuhan people. This is non sense and irresponsible!
These rioters have set fire to destroy. How could they be concerned about social assistance in disaster relief?
This quarantine bldg is only 500m away fm a community w/50K ppl, plus, HK GOV said they r m plannin to use the bldg but everyone can see preparation is almost done, lastly, HK GOV still uses self declaration to ctrl border, will u remain silent when facin such useless GOV?
How could the government do that without consulting the public?
When the world is blocking the entry of WuhanCoronavirus infected people, HKGov is welcoming them to stay in residential area with thousands of people there I can't help thinking HKGov is using HR plague to eliminate HKers, who are demanding for freedom and democracy for months
The fear of death is understandable, let alone the fatal effects on all their relatives and neighbours. It would be a relieving and remedial factor if there are more suitable locations.
Carrielam’s govt doesn’t make any consent to the resident near the quarantine building. The original residential area is so close to this building. The residents are so angry! HK has another option for quarantine building where far away from residential area.
This 101% is just self defense wuhanpnemonia SOSHK
The HK Gov decided to allocate infected persons to a building so close to a crowded neighbourhood without even letting the residents know. More ridiculously, the District Council did not know either. This is the final resort of the residents to prevent the virus from spreading.
Just a little amendment: **Hong Kong ppl expressing their urge to hk govt to take back their plan of turning a residential site into a virus quarantine building
This is an absolutely inappropriate site for virus quarantine building Residential area is just 100m away and 50k people living around with several schools and kindergartens How can gov decide without any consultation and proper consideration ?
Will you place a quarantine building near a residential area that is only few hundred meters away? With 50,000 residents living, secondary school and primary school nearby? That is not quarantine building. It's to infect people around. Hong Kong Gov't is NONSENSE!
What the heck is wrong with Reuters That so called quarantine building is only 500m away from residential area, basically bomb that will explode at any time and you wonder why people there hate it? They could've just use what they used back at 2003 which was away from people
When HKGOV refused to close the boarder and still welcoming them with open arms. It is just pointless to setup a quarantine site so close to other residents and the outbreak will not be contained by just one building. coronavirus
All the protesters are Fanling residents nearby protesting the quarantine area i.e. Fai Ming estate too close of their home, which easily causes infection, but not quarantine! Silly tyrannt Carrie Lam showing her stupidity to the world!
Core of the problem: an unaccountable gov, from that people cannot find institutional mean to protect their interests and safety.
The Hong Kong government decides to set up quarantined buildings at a densely populated area, with schools attended by thousands of teenagers and children. Local residents are extremely angry at the govt, who is still opening the gates for infected Chinese to keep coming in.
The 'quarantine building' is a newly-built public housing building ready for use The building is located right next to other housing buildings that are already in use So the gov't is trying to put the suspected patients next to the residents, who are strongly oppose to the plan
Look at these brave Hong Kong freedom fighters, burning down medical centers and actively working against the treatment of the ill! TurningPointUK HongKong CoronaOutbreak ProDemocracy MoreLikeProDeath
The government wants to set up a quarantine zone next to the dwellings. Fuck HK goverment
The Hong Kong govt decided to make the building into a quarantine zone without any consultation. Would u stay calm & do nothing when it’s next to ur home, which is a densely-populated residential area? The Wuhan coronavirus is highly infectious...
Time to send the police to guard this place, but the police will revoke for sure.
As Hong Kong is densely city, epidemic would spread quickly to community. With the serious casualties during SARS, it’s inestimable fear to Hongkongers. Yet, HK Gov’t refuse closing border. And this building nearby is a dense residential area already, people are so angry with it!
Why? 1. It's 50m from the nearest inhabited block. 2. Govt did nothing to prevent the disease from spreading and now want people to welcome a quarantine block next to my house with open arms? 3. There are many more holiday camps that can be used as quarantine centres.
Thanks for reporting, as found some similarities of previous articles, please allow me to use my previous clarification here too👇🏼
One of the worst infected area during 2003 SARS was Amoy Garden, a high rise residential area. HKGov obviously didn’t learn from that lesson by setting up a quarantine camp in similar housing buildings. Another bad decision to keep people safe.
Because two buildings are very near. So we reject the HK government. Our purpose is stop this order.
Cause there are Four Schools and Many Housing nearby, and HKSAR DID NOT SAY A THING BEFORE THEY ANNOUNCED IT!!!!
OMG, that planned virus quarantine building is just right next to another real estate that is densely populated. Can you at least do some fact check before actually release an article? What do you want? Have all HKers killed by the virus?
It really is wrong to use protestors here, they are residents nearby who do not wish an estate that is in close proximity to their residence is used for patients. HKG has lost their credibility and most believe the estate is used for Chinese patient not local people.
the worry of the locals
U may ask why: This building was prepared for close contacts of infected patients/ medics who dun want to bk hm after working with suspected/infected patients. Yet it was next to residential area & 2 schools. We knew Gov could not listen to us so we hv to block it ourselves.
Quarantine camps during SARS outbreak were holiday villages rather far away from residential areas. I’m not sure why they went for high density public housing buildings this time. Are they expecting huge amt of ppl need to quarantine?
After the residents voiced their concerns, HK government has promised to hold off the development and scheduled a joint meeting for Wednesday with all parties. But the rioters still trying to burn the building down.
If yr home nearby will build a new isolate area for coronavirus which w/in 50 metres, wt will u do? Bare in mind, no matter pro ccp or pro democracy civilians, all resident support their behaviour as the carrie lam refuse do anything at that moment
these are just little delinquents playing hero. They should go home to mummy and let the grown ups try to contain the virus.
Although the government said that they are not preparing to use virus quarantine building, it seems the gov. is lying take a look at the inside of the building
Most of the confirmed cases of WuhanPneumonia in HK now are people from Wuhan. HK govt is doing nothing to stop 🇨🇳 people flooding into HK! Masks & sterilised products are out of stocks in the city! CloseTheBorders from 🇨🇳 NOW! Save Our medics! Save HKers!
revoke all medical care for hong kong then, if they gonna burn down your medical facilities let them own that decision by withdrawing all medics from hong kong and leaving them to face the virus on their own without aid.
The residents fear a WuhanCoronavirus outbreak will happen in their neighborhood and I think it’s understandable. HK must close our borders with mainland China...otherwise we’ll just continue to have an influx of virus carriers coming in & quarantine buildings will be pointless.
😂
Amazing how hk protesters manage to make the world see clearly that they are indeed terrorists. they sabotage their own movement so effectively.
For people wondering why, please note that HongKong govt ignores the fact that our medical system is already overloaded. Closing the border instead of having quarantine centre is the solution. The choice of site hasn't undergone any consultation as well.
Why This virus is bad
Dr Mengele’s agents must have paid tons of people...
Stupid move.
They're not buying into this pandemic fear porn. 😎
Hong Kong protesters torch planned virus quarantine building
Dumb
If you say 'in the former British colony' in your article it should be immediately disqualified
I think a lot of protestors would rather die of coronavirus than detained under the guise of 'health and safety' by the communist government. It's really too bad the distrust is this high. I blame xjp.
Putangina
The government is preparing to set up this quarantine building which is just a block from some residential estate. The residents have voiced out the concern but the setup keeps going on. For the whole day the residents have been on the street protesting. The torch was the end.
such idiots.
They ANTIFA or Something lefties do.
I just want some weed
Huh? That makes zero sense
This is terroristic
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That's bad.. very very bad...
I kinda understand this, I guess.
🤔
Is this film
You gotta be fucking kidding me
Why?
Thats not going to help the cause guys.
Smart move as China would allow the virus to escape and infect everyone in Hong Kong.
thugs
I’m very pro-democracy... but this just seems like some teenage garbage
Why would anyone do such a thing?
Lemme guess, 'Protesters'.
They want to die?
Wait, what?
Why would they do that or do they think China is up to some suspect shit?
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