Prognosis
Hong Kong Can Still Achieve Covid Zero, Official Says
- Authorities report 31,008 new Covid cases and 153 deaths
- China-aided projects to supply some 50,000 isolation beds
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Hong Kong authorities are liaising with private hospitals to make space for Covid patients as the city battles its worst wave yet of the virus, which is claiming the lives of at least a hundred people a day.
The government is sending more government hospital patients who are being treated for ailments other than Covid-19 to private facilities if they are in a stable condition and in recovery, to free up beds in the public system, health officials said at a press briefing Sunday. Some private hospitals are admitting mild-symptom Covid patients, they said.