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Penny's Bay orChok Ko Wan (Chinese:竹篙灣) is a bay in north-easternLantau Island, and had been a port since theMing dynasty.[1] The bay has since been reclaimed and is the site of theHong Kong Disneyland Resort, which consists of theHong Kong Disneylandtheme park,Disneyland Hotel, andDisney's Hollywood Hotel, and theInspiration Lake. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it became home toPenny's Bay Community Isolation Facility. It is connected by a highway and a rail connection on theMTRDisneyland Resort line toSunny Bay station.
Penny's Bay is located inTsuen Wan District,[2] but a small southern portion falls inIslands District.[citation needed]
Before the reclamation of the bay,Cheoy Lee Shipyard operated in the bay from 1964 to April 2001. The Government acquired the land from the owners for the sum of HK$1.48 billion, and paid HK$22.7 million in additional compensation, according to a Public Works Subcommittee paper from May 2002.
The Government had not realised that its operations accumulated 30,000 m3 (1,100,000 cu ft) of soil contaminated withdioxin,heavy metals, andhydrocarbons. The solid waste was dug up and transferred toTo Kau Wan on the north shore of Northeast Lantau for temporary processing, and finallyincinerated at the Chemical Waste Treatment Centre on theTsing Yi Island amid protests by residents. The total cleanup cost not taken into account at the time of acquisition was estimated at HK$450 million.[3]
Penny's Bay Community Isolation Facility (formerly Penny's Bay Quarantine Centre,竹篙灣檢疫中心) has a total capacity of 1,916 people. During theCOVID-19 pandemic in Hong Kong, in 2021 it was used to house US arrivals to Hong Kong for one week as part of a mandatory quarantine applicable to travellers regardless of testing or vaccine status.[4] In 2022, it was changed to a quarantine facility for mild-symptom cases.[5]Hong Kong's last remaining community isolation centre for Covid patients, Penny's Bay on Lantau, officially closed 1 March 2023.
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