Hong Kong confirmed 6,211 Covid-19 infections on Tuesday, as a senior official warned that daily infections had increased 64-fold compared with the start of the month, while the city’s leader was expected to offer a time frame for imposing citywide universal testing to curb an explosion of Covid-19 infections.
Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan, head of the Centre for Health Protection communicable disease branch, said the confirmed figures were constrained by the capacity of public laboratories, and revealed that actual infections detected by public and private facilities across the city in the past 24 hours reached 8,013.
