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Hong Kong Won't Impose Full-Scale Lockdown During Mass Covid Testing
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March 2, 2022
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1:01Now PlayingHong Kong reported a record of more than 55,000 daily new Covid-19 infections as the city’s spiraling outbreak sees thousands of residents flee while those remaining strip shelves of food and medicine.
Chief Executive Carrie Lam sought to reassure people that there won’t be a “wholesale” lockdown during a compulsory testing blitz, but offered no details.
But she acknowledged that there won’t be enough beds to isolate everyone found to be infected, and didn’t clarify how the mass testing will be conducted and when. The information vacuum has fueled fears and panic-buying in Hong Kong, which has one of the deadliest outbreaks in the world and is facing the limits of a Covid Zero strategy in the face of more transmissible variants like omicron.
“It is totally understandable for members of the public to feel anxious and worried,” the government said earlier in a statement. But it urged against “succumbing to unnecessary fear and irrational behavior.”
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