Hong Kong Planning Mandatory Covid Testing for 7.4 Million
- City plans to test entire population as Covid infections climb
- China’s Xi has urged city to take ‘all necessary measures’
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Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam said the city is planning to make it mandatory for all residents to get tested for Covid-19, deploying a tactic widely used to curtail the virus on China’s mainland as the financial hub struggles to contain an escalating outbreak.
The city will also delay the chief executive’s election by more than a month, Lam said at a press conference Friday, where she described plans for universal testing that might need to be linked to residents’ government identity cards.