Given HKG and China's past experience with SARS and Avian Flu, the health officials are taking no chances with the swine flu.
The quarantine and lock-down of all hotel guests at Wanchai district's Metropark Hotel after a Mexican national who flew in from Shanghai to HKG after catching swine flu and spreading it on his China Eastern Air flight from Shanghai to HKG is causing a lot of consternation among European guests in the hotel.
Let them fulminate.
Better be safe than have regrets later.
Click on how HKG health authorities are managing this pandemic:
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSHKG2279
The density level in Hong Kong is at par if not worse than in Mexico City, the latter with 20 million in population.
And certainly, across the border in Shenzhen and the Pearl River Delta, there is no room for mistake.
It is imperative that Chinese officials be ever vigilant in taking steps to curb the spread of this swine flu virus. No room for mistake.
