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Readers discuss the reasons Hong Kong is struggling amid the Covid-19 fifth wave, and officials’ confidence that they could keep Omicron at bay

The outbreak is mainly among middle school students in Laixi county, which will start a second round of mass testing on Monday

The frenetic stockpiling underlines the worries of Hongkongers and the lack of trust in a government that looks increasingly out of touch with the public.

The arrival of a team of policy experts from Beijing offers a sliver of hope of saving Hong Kong from leadership that is out of its depth. With any luck, the unnerving, morale-sapping period of flip-flops, procrastination, mixed messages and policy missteps will soon end.

E-commerce platform HKTVmall struggles to make deliveries as workers test positive for coronavirus, placed in quarantine.

Emotion appears to have overtaken Putin’s reasoning, opening his country to unforeseen destructive effects, while Hong Kong struggles to deal with the consequences of its pandemic policies. For investors, the key defensive mechanism is diversification and unemotional risk assessment.

Experts say city has to strike a fine balance between ensuring operation of essential services and limiting movement of most residents.

Government adviser Professor Yuen Kwok-yung says it is ‘morally wrong’ for private facilities to turn away coronavirus-positive patients, adding to the burden of overwhelmed public hospitals.

The grim projection by property agents comes as total transactions plunged to a 25-month low of 3,992 deals in February, according to data from Centaline.

Readers call for a more effective adherence to the mainland strategy of responding to outbreaks, the release of even more data on infections, and mandatory vaccination rather than mass testing.