their only time off in the entire year. anna. >> that certainly would be tough. steven jiang, many thanks for the update. joining me now is karen grepin. she is an associate professor at the school of public health at the university of hong kong. dr. grepin, great to have you with us. you obviously are based here in hong kong, which as we know has very strict if not draconian quarantine measures. but i guess due to these measures, you know, hong kong has managed to catch covid cases at the border or in quarantine. i guess many fear it's just a matter of time before omicron gets into the community. what are your thoughts on that? >> yeah. things are definitely heating up right now in hong kong in terms of the number of imported cases. every imported case is a risk in that it has the possibility of getting into the community. but at the same time, as you said, we have some very rigorous border control measures in place here in hong kong and thus far have proven to be successful in