HK housing virus cluster prompts partial lockdown


Off limits: Policemen sealing off a residential building at the Kwai Chung Estate public housing complex in Hong Kong. — Bloomberg

HONG KONG: Hong Kong expanded a partial lockdown and tightened pandemic restrictions after more than 200 cases of Covid-19 were discovered at a public housing estate.

Hong Kong has already suspended many overseas flights and requires arrivals be quarantined, similar to mainland China’s “zero-tolerance” approach to the virus that has placed millions under lockdowns and mandates mask wearing, rigorous case tracing and mass testing.

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