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Chief Executive Carrie Lam takes part in the Universal Community Testing Program at the Central Government Offices testing center on September 1, 2020.
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As Hong Kong’s fourth coronavirus wave shows signs of abating, authorities have begun plans to ease restrictions and launch a massive vaccination drive. Yet government measures are coming under more public scrutiny than ever before.
Following the passing of the controversial national security law last summer and a large-scale crackdown on the city’s pro-democracy protest movement, there has been drastic decline in trust between residents and authorities. In the past year and a half, people’s satisfaction ratings with the government have dropped to the lowest levels ever recorded since the city’s 1997 handover from Britain to China, according to the Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Inst