Coronavirus: Hurdles for Hong Kong voluntary mass testing amid scepticism from some, elderly’s uncertainty with online system


By Rachel YeoJoyce Ng

Hong Kong began a three-day voluntary mass coronavirus testing exercise on Friday amid a fifth wave of infections, but resistance and challenges had already surfaced.

Some among the elderly lamented it as pointless since they were “dying anyway”, while a community group said it expected many to not know how to make a report online should they test positive for Covid-19.

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