Coronavirus: four thousand low-income families have to wait longer to get public housing flats as government converts Fo Tan estate into quarantine centre

Four thousand low-income families in Hong Kong who have been assured flats in a public housing estate will have to wait longer, as the residential units allocated to them have been chosen as the city’s next makeshift quarantine facility to curb the coronavirus outbreak.When Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor announced last week that the newly built Chun Yeung Estate in Fo Tan would be used as the city’s fifth quarantine site, it was not yet known that most of its 4,800 rental flats had…