Hong Kong medics strike for China border closure over virus fears

Protesters holding up banners and placards during a "flash mob" gathering to demand the government close its border with mainland China to reduce the spread of the coronavirus to Hong Kong on Feb 3, 2020. - AFP

HONG KONG (AFP): Hundreds of Hong Kong medical workers walked off their jobs on Monday (Feb 3), demanding the city close its border with China to reduce the coronavirus spreading -- with frontline staff threatening to follow suit in the coming days.

The financial hub has 15 confirmed cases of the disease, many of them brought over from the Chinese mainland where the epidemic began and has so far killed more than 360 people.