Prognosis
Hong Kong’s Free Virus Tests for All Is an Experiment in Trust
- Company behind the drive hopes 3 million people come forward
- Participation may reflect sentiment toward China influence
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Hong Kong is about to embark on the world’s biggest experiment in voluntary testing and the China-backed company behind the blitz hopes 3 million residents will come forward for an exercise that could protect the city from future flareups.
Together with the 1 million in high-risk groups already screened, that would mean around half of the over 7 million population will be probed for asymptomatic infection, said Anthony Wu, chairman of Sunrise Diagnostic Centre Ltd., a local joint venture between China’s BGI Genomics Co. and Hong Kong-based China Biotech Services Holdings Ltd.