Hong Kong needs permanent quarantine facilities to cope with future disease outbreaks: health chief

Permanent quarantine facilities could be set up to cope with future infectious disease outbreaks, Hong Kong’s health chief said on Wednesday, as the city’s four new coronavirus infections were all confirmed as imported.A medical expert has also called on the government to step up measures to contain Covid-19 transmissions from overseas returnees, with more than 600 of the city’s latest tally of 1,033 cases classified as originating abroad.The statement from Secretary for Food and Health…