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Long lines of customers formed at supermarkets across Hong Kong on Monday (Feb 28) to strip shelves of daily necessities and groceries, while thousands flocked to online shopping portals, panicked by the possibility of a large-scale lockdown to enable universal testing for Covid-19.
The shock waves spread after Secretary for Food and Health Sophia Chan Siu-chee told a radio programme on.