Advocates for foreign domestic workers in Hong Kong say they have faced greater discrimination amid virus fears and a lack of support if they get infected.
Kay, who had lived with her employer, tried to explain that she didn’t have a home to go back to, but she was still left standing in the rain.
, while exposing them to what advocates say is greater discrimination in Hong Kong amid virus fears and a lack of support if they get infected.During the outbreak this year, driven by the highly transmissibleof the virus, dozens of domestic workers who tested positive were fired by employers who didn’t want their families to be exposed, said Manisha Wijesinghe, executive director of the local nonprofit group HELP for Domestic Workers.
Mary also went to a public hospital to get a formal test done but was told to wait for the results at home. She spent the night near a bus stop during unusually cold weather before a friend sent her the number for Wijesinghe’s group. “Priority was given to elderly and pediatric patients in serious conditions; young patients and those with mild symptoms or no symptoms were asked to stay at home,” it said.
Domestic workers at Victoria Park in February, as Hong Kong faced its worst coronavirus outbreak of the pandemic.Both Mary and Kay, whose quarantine periods ended in March, have received counseling after their experiences. Kay was able to travel back to the Philippines to see her family and plans to find a new job in Hong Kong.
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