Hong Kong’s Covid Mass Testing Plan in Flux as Deaths Soar
- Visiting Chinese expert has urged focus on lowering deaths
- Information vacuum has sown confusion around testing plans
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Hong Kong’s plan to test its entire 7.4 million population three times in March is now in flux as pressure grows on the government to focus resources instead on addressing a Covid death rate that has surged to the highest in the world.
The city is now prioritizing efforts to prevent more of its elderly from dying, reported Ming Pao on Tuesday. The mass testing exercise may be postponed to April as part of this shift, said the South China Morning Post. Both outlets cited sources they did not identify.