Category: quarantine

Australian State To Use Geolocation And Live Face Recognition Quarantine App

The Australian state government of South Australia is rolling out a new quarantine app that requires users to use geolocation and live face recognition check-ins. Known as “Quarantine SA”, the mobile app tracks users’ location at each random check-in request to make sure they are at an approved address. The app is supported by the…


Australian State to Use Geolocation, Live Face Recognition Quarantine App

The Australian state government of South Australia is rolling out a new quarantine app that requires users to use geolocation and live face recognition check-ins. Known as “Quarantine SA,” the mobile app tracks users’ location at each random check-in request to make sure they are at an approved address. The app is supported by the…


Hong Kong’s Strict Quarantine Rules Threaten to Erode Allure of Financial Hub

HONG KONG—Hong Kong’s government is facing growing pressure from business lobby groups to open borders or risk losing executives and investments as it shows no sign of easing one of the world’s strictest quarantine programs. Working on billion-dollar deals while locked in hotel rooms for three weeks is becoming common for bankers in Asia’s financial…


Queensland to Build Regional Quarantine Hub

The Queensland government has announced that it has struck a deal with billionaire John Wagner to build a fit-for-purpose regional COVID-19 quarantine facility at Wellcamp, Toowoomba, providing 1,000 beds to ease pressure on the hotel quarantine system. This comes less than 24 hours after Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk slammed shut its borders for two weeks,…


Australian State to Build New Regional COVID-19 Quarantine Facility

The government of the Australian state of Queensland announced on Thursday that it has struck a deal with billionaire John Wagner to build a fit-for-purpose regional COVID-19 quarantine facility at Wellcamp, Toowoomba, providing 1,000 beds to ease pressure on the state’s hotel quarantine system. This comes less than 24 hours after Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk…


Mississippi’s New COVID-19 Order Requires Infected to Self-Isolate or Face Jail

Mississippi residents flouting the state’s newly imposed order for anyone infected with COVID-19 to isolate at home could face criminal charges and time behind bars. The Mississippi State Department of Health on Friday issued an order (pdf), with immediate effect, requiring anyone infected with COVID-19, including those fully vaccinated, to isolate for 10 days at…


Never Go to Xinjiang Again: Trucker Vows

A Chinese fuel tank truck driver described his experience in delivering fuel to Xinjiang as a “life-time hardship.” He vowed, “Regardless, I will never go to Xinjiang again.” Lu Ming (pseudonym) is a truck driver from Shandong, a coastal province in eastern China. In a recent interview with the Epoch Times, he recounted his trip…


‘There Are Checkpoints at Every Corner’: Chinese Trucker Describes Expansive Surveillance System in Xinjiang

A Chinese fuel tank truck driver described his experience in delivering fuel to Xinjiang as a “life-time hardship.” He vowed, “Regardless, I will never go to Xinjiang again.” Lu Ming (pseudonym) is a truck driver from Shandong, a coastal province in eastern China. In a recent interview with the Epoch Times, he recounted his trip…


Over 5,500 Students in Quarantine or Isolation Due to COVID-19 in Florida School District

A school district in Florida revealed Monday that more than 5,500 students, as well as more than 300 employees, are in quarantine or isolation due to COVID-19. Hillsborough County School Board, based in Tampa, announced on Monday that as of 7 a.m., at least 5,599 students and 316 employees in Hillsborough County Public Schools are…


Beijing: 1st Pulmonary Anthrax Case in 10 Years

New details have emerged about China’s mass quarantine strategy. Some quarantine cells don’t even have beds—forcing seniors and a young mother with a toddler to sit upright all night. A growing number of Chinese residents say their contact tracking health codes are malfunctioning—showing a clean bill of health one minute, and then signs of possible…