Hong Kong’s Covid Chaos Is Worsening
A pedestrian in front of an advertisement featuring the city's skyline in Hong Kong.
Photographer: Paul Yeung/BloombergHere’s the latest news from the pandemic.
It’s chaos in Hong Kong. While the Asian financial hub is posting successive record-breaking numbers of Covid infections and a death rate that tops the industrialized world, leaked reports of a citywide lockdown in local media have some residents fleeing while others scramble to stock up on food and medicine.