Hong Kong faces challenge in plan to evacuate residents from Hubei amid shortage of quarantine facilities

Hong Kong’s quarantine facilities have only about 700 places left, a top official said on Sunday, as the government faces the challenge of evacuating later this month some of the 3,400 city residents stranded in Hubei.Patrick Nip Tak-kuen, secretary for constitutional and mainland affairs, said the government was planning to arrange flights later this month to bring home 500 to 600 Hongkongers stranded in Hubei in mainland China, the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic. Earlier this month,…