In the MTR (subway) trains and stations over 90% of the people are wearing face masks. On the streets, in shopping malls, and at the airport it's slightly less — probably 75-80% — but still shocking seeing so many of the public wearing masks. In my office, around 50% of the staff (including me) wear masks in the office! Hardly anyone goes to restaurants, theaters, shopping malls these days. We have to be anti-social to prevent from getting infected. Sadly, and quite shockingly, this is what life is like here now.

The safest N95 masks/respirators have completely sold out in Hong Kong and probably the rest of Asia. I had my mom FedEx over 90 3M model 8210 "N95" masks from Hawaii. She spent US$220 (4 boxes @ $55/box) on the shipping! I should be receiving the masks on Thursday.

Tonight the government evacuated the remaining residents (around 270 people) of Amoy Gardens Block E (quarantined just yesterday) to 2 government-owned holiday camp isolation centers. They have 4 of these holiday camps reserved for quarantining infected patients. The combined capacity of these camps is around 1050 people. The government is also providing 3 meals a day and daily necessities (soap, toothpaste, and disinfectant) to all those quarantined. The South China Morning Post reported, "At a glance, it now looks more like a supply station in a war zone, with bags of rice and rolls of toilet paper stacked outside." Psychologists are there to provide free counselling as well.

Latest stats:
75 new cases for a total of 685 infected in Hong Kong today. 1 more dead for a total of 16. Globally, close to 1900 have been infected in 15 countries and 63 have died.

More from CNN.com:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/04/01/hk.sars/index.html