Hong Kong to Ask Residents To Take 3 Home Rapid-Covid Tests

A Covid-19 isolation facility in the Tsing Yi area in Hong Kong.Photographer: Lam Yik/Bloomberg
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Hong Kong residents will all receive Covid rapid antigen tests and are urged to undertake them daily between April 8 and 10, Chief Executive Carrie Lam said at a briefing Saturday.

The voluntary exercise does not replace authorities’ plan for a mandatory mass testing, Lam said. The government would distribute service kits to all households with rapid tests, masks and medical supplies, she said.