HONG KONG (Bloomberg):Hong Kong’s Covid-19 death rate is now the highest in the world, after fatalities among the city’s under-vaccinated elderly surged and concerns mount there may be more to come as infections spread through care facilities.
The financial hub’s seven-day rolling average rose to 27 deaths per 1 million people as of Sunday, according to Bloomberg calculations based on Johns Hopkins University data. That’s double Latvia, which has the second-highest rate, and far surpasses the peak of the US’s Omicron wave.
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