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Hong Kongers Told to Report Covid Self-Test Results, Or Else
Customers hold newly-purchased Covid-19 rapid antigen test kits in Hong Kong.
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Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam called on residents to promptly report positive results of home Covid tests or face legal consequences, amid reports that the city’s sweeping outbreak is being under-counted.
The Asian financial hub launched a website on March 7 to self-report infections in order to speed up the process of sending high-risk patients to community isolation facilities after a surge of daily cases overwhelmed the city’s gold-standard laboratory testing system.