Residents stranded in Morocco for pandemic return to Hong Kong

Twenty-six Hong Kong residents stranded in Morocco due to the COVID-19 outbreak have returned to Hong Kong thanks to a chartered flight arranged by the Chinese Embassy in Morocco.

China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government said in a statement that the residents have arrived at AsiaWorld-Expo for quarantine by a coach arranged by the HKSAR government after landing in Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong Province, on Friday afternoon.

Altogether 27 Hong Kong residents left Morocco on a chartered flight arranged by the Chinese embassy, with one choosing to stay in Guangzhou for 14-day medical surveillance.

The return of residents from Morocco came in the latest efforts of the HKSAR government to bring home Hong Kong people stranded in coronavirus-stricken foreign countries. With the help of the Office of the Commissioner of the Chinese Foreign Ministry in the HKSAR and the Chinese embassies, the HKSAR government has brought home residents from Morocco, Peru and Japan.

HKSAR Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Friday expressed gratitude to the efforts of the office and the Chinese embassies on her Facebook account and stressed that the care from the nation is the very guarantee for Hong Kong residents under "one country, two systems."