Hong Kong’s Striking Health Workers Pose New Threat to Beijing
- Medical workers went on strike on Monday amid virus outbreak
- New hospital staff union says it has more than 18,000 members
Medical workers wearing protective masks protest outside Queen Mary Hospital in Hong Kong on Feb. 3.
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Thousands of Hong Kong medical workers went on strike for a second day on Tuesday to demand that leader Carrie Lam immediately close the city’s border with the mainland to prevent the spread of a deadly coronavirus.