A worker wearing a protective mask and gloves sweeps the floor next to cubicles in a quarantine facility during a media tour of a temporary community treatment facility for Covid-19 patients at the AsiaWorld-Expo (AWE) in Hong Kong, China, on Saturday (Aug 1). Hong Kong has been taken off-guard by the sudden jump of infections after managing to contain the spread locally as it tore across the world. Officials are now scrambling to slow what they're calling a third wave, while boosting health-care facilities that are reaching capacity. - Bloomberg
HONG KONG, Aug 1 (SCMP/ANN): Covid-19 killed four more elderly patients as Hong Kong recorded 125 new coronavirus cases on Saturday, the 11th day in a row with triple-digit increases, while the city’s leader apologised for the inconveniences caused by the previous full-day ban on restaurants.
All but one of the latest cases were locally transmitted, including 45 without a known origin. The imported infection involved a returnee from Britain.
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