BEIJING: Hong Kong hospitals cut services as medical workers were striking for a second day to demand the border with mainland China be shut completely to ward off a virus that caused its first death in the semi-autonomous territory.
All but two of Hong Kong’s land and sea crossings with the mainland were closed at midnight after more than 2,000 hospital workers went on strike on Monday.
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