Jan 27, 2021
HONG KONG – When Shirley Leung, 60, woke up enclosed in Hong Kong’s first coronavirus lockdown, she surveyed the tiny room she shares with her adult son, which fits a single bed and cardboard boxes and plastic tubs for storing clothes.
She tried to ignore the smell of the ceiling and walls, which were blanketed with mold. She rationed out the fresh vegetables she had at home, dissatisfied with the canned foods and instant noodles the government had provided when it imposed the restrictions Saturday. She considered the cramped, interconnected nature of her apartment building.
“If one room is infected, then how is it possible for cases not to spread among subdivided flats?” Leung said in a telephone interview. “How can it be safe?”
Donna Kinnair
The chief executive and general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing has been appointed as a non-executive director for the newly created NHS Race and Health Observatory.
Dame Donna Kinnair (pictured above) will sit on the board alongside 14 other members who together were described as being some of the world’s leading experts on the subject of health inequalities.
“This work is vitally important and I am honoured to contribute in any way I can
Donna Kinnair
Other members include Professor Sir Michael Marmot, who authored the landmark Marmot Review into health inequalities in 2010, which was updated in 2020, and Lord Victor Adebowale, former chief executive of the social care enterprise Turning Point and now chair of NHS Confederation.
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