Hong Kong to Send Tens of Millions of Covid Tests to Residents
- City encouraging residents to perform home tests, Lam says
- Move comes as untraceable case jump in growing outbreak
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Hong Kong is buying “tens of millions” of home testing kits to send to the city’s 7.4 million residents, as surging Covid cases threaten to overwhelm the financial hub’s health-care system.
“This latest outbreak is the worst we have seen in the past two years,” Chief Executive Carrie Lam said at a press briefing Friday. “So we will launch a universal rapid antigen test that means each member of the Hong Kong public will be able to obtain one kit.”