Page 21 - Fifth Wave News Today

The MTR Corporation’s Covid-19 tally over the past week has hit 100, with an unknown number of employees also quarantined as close contacts.

Multiple Chinese cities have announced cash rewards for tip-offs about people illegally crossing into the mainland from Hong Kong, which is experiencing a massive fifth Covid-19 wave, overwhelming the local health system, state media reported on Saturday.

Mother-of-two Mavis Li says she has called multiple hotlines to inquire about her and her eldest child’s test results, with no success.

Readers discuss adding volunteers to Hong Kong’s pandemic effort, the need for responsive policy, discontent with the city’s leadership, and why hair salons should be reopened.

A government source says health authorities are planning to move stable, younger patients currently housed at AsiaWorld-Expo to isolation hotels to free up hospital beds.

Tam Yiu-chung, Hong Kong’s sole delegate to the country’s top legislative body, says President Xi Jinping ‘has made it clear that fighting the pandemic is the overriding priority’.

The city managed to keep the virus at bay for two years, so when did Hong Kong start to lose control, and what went wrong with preparations for the fifth wave of infections?

City leader says details of proposed universal testing are still being ironed out.

Housewife Wong Chui-mei ‘felt so helpless’ as she, her husband and their three children waited in a tent on hospital grounds to get medical help.

Officials, however, have reiterated that daily confirmed case counts no longer reflect the full extent of the situation due to a backlog of test samples.