Chief Executive Carrie Lam has announced that the government will issue a red outbound travel alert for the entire world, except mainland China, Macau and Taiwan, as soon as Tuesday, as the coronavirus continues to spread rapidly across the globe. From Thursday, people coming in from all other places, even if they are SAR residents, will either be quarantined at home for 14 days or put under medical surveillance. Close contacts of confirmed cases will be sent to quarantine centres. Since February 8, visitors and locals arriving from the mainland have already needed to undergo self-quarantine. So that leaves only people arriving from Macau or Taiwan exempt from the new regulation. Lam urged all Hong Kong residents to avoid non-essential travel, as she said that the new quarantine arrangements and medical surveillance will make sure "that previous efforts won't go to waste". It is the most drastic step yet by the government to contain Covid-19 in Hong Kong. The territory has 156 confirmed cases at the moment. Speaking…

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