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Hong Kong Officials Seek Beijing’s Help to Combat Covid Outbreak
- Worsening outbreak is straining city’s health-care resources
- H.K. officials vowed to stick to Beijing’s Covid-Zero strategy
Members of the public wait at a Covid-19 testing facility in Hong Kong, on Feb. 9.
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China’s central government will give full support to Hong Kong as the city’s worsening outbreak strains health-care resources and threatens its Covid-Zero strategy, Chief Secretary John Lee said after a meeting with mainland officials to ask for urgent pandemic support.