Pandemic borders: inside the quarantine hotel

Watch: Channel NewsAsia

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Role: Producer, Writer, Director

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Synopsis: How do you allow people to enter the country, yet keep COVID-19 and its deadly variants from invading and infecting the community?

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Enter the quarantine hotel. To ensure incoming high-risk travellers are bubble wrapped from the rest of the community until declared virus-free, hotels all over the country have transformed into quarantine facilities to house these travellers. 

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How did the country’s thousands of hospitality staff rally to become frontline workers, and what sacrifices are they called to make in these unprecedented times?