Hong Kong’s COVID-19 containment campaign is taking its greatest toll on the hundreds of thousands of migrants who work as live-in domestics in the territory.
Scores have been evicted or sacked after testing positive for COVID-19, by employers who do not want the virus in their households, local rights groups say.
Some are facing steep fines for breaching Hong Kong’s two-person limit on gatherings — a rule that has upended the long-standing tradition of domestic workers meeting up with friends on their single day off.
On Feb. 19 and 20, foreign domestic workers, known locally as “helpers,” accounted for more than