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Table 2 Hong Kong Health Authority’s action to hotel industry during Swine flu 2009

From: The role of the hotel industry in the response to emerging epidemics: a case study of SARS in 2003 and H1N1 swine flu in 2009 in Hong Kong

Date

Action by the Health Authority

30 April 2009

A 25-year-old male from Mexico (index patient) arrived in Hong Kong and stayed at the Metropark Hotel.

1 to 7 May 2009

The Director of Health ordered that the Metropark Hotel should be isolated. All guests and staff were quarantined. Quarantined persons were provided with oseltamivir (Tamiflu) and other medical treatment.

1 May 2009

Department of Health conducted contact tracing in the disease containment phase

1 May 2009

Cleansing and disinfection of the hotel lobby and common areas as well as bathrooms in individual guest rooms have been arranged by Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD).

Early May 2009

The Metropark Hotel as well as 8 other hotels/hostels in which passengers of flight MU505 (flight of the index patient) had stayed have been disinfected.

Early May 2009

Hygiene guidelines have been issued to all owners’ corporations, owners’ committee, mutual assistance committees and the Hong Kong Association of Property Management Companies, licensed hotels/guesthouses and bed space apartments to encourage enhanced cleansing and improvement of hygiene.

  1. Note: Materials taken from references [11, 36]