Hong Kong border points jammed ahead of midnight quarantine deadline

Hundreds of thousands of people have been crossing into Hong Kong from mainland China to beat a Friday midnight deadline of a mandatory 14-day quarantine to curb the spread of the new coronavirus that has killed more than 630 people in the mainland.Immigration figures showed that the number of people entering Hong Kong from mainland China jumped from about 58,800 Wednesday to 145,000 Thursday."The increase in one day is not unexpected," Security Secretary John Lee said. "It is understandable that a lot more people are returning to Hong Kong because of the time the quarantine measure is to b…READ FULL ARTICLE