Health workers wearing protective masks speak with each other during a media tour of a temporary community treatment facility for Covid-19 patients at the AsiaWorld-Expo (AWE) in Hong Kong, China, on Aug 1, 2020. 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 2 (Reuters): Seven Chinese health officials were due to arrive in Hong Kong on Sunday, the first members of a 60-person team that will carry out widespread testing for Covid-19 in the territory as the global financial hub races to halt a third wave of illness.
China's National Health Commission on Saturday announced their scheduled arrival.
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