Students, athletes, businesses and Hong Kong itself are experiencing stunted growth while the rest of the world leaves us behind. The city and its leaders must ask look beyond short-term issues and ask hard questions about the end game and how much more Hongkongers can take.
Shanghai has reported 114,000 cases since the latest wave of outbreaks started on March 1, raking up more cases in a month than the previous two years combined.
The testing exercise, which has never been seen elsewhere in the world, was aimed to spot most of the infections and quarantine them in a quick manner to achieve a dynamic zero-Covid goal.
However, if a patient’s living environment is too crowded, or is also home to high-risk people, they will still be required to go to a government isolation facility.