COVID-19: Elderly-care facilities at center of HK's outbreak
Kathleen Wong thought her 89-year-old mother was lucky to secure a coveted spot in a government nursing home, but now she watches in horror as a COVID-19 wave tears through Hong Kong’s elderly population. Care homes have become the center of the territory’s worst-ever outbreak, accounting for nearly 60 percent of all deaths since January, when a resurgence fueled by the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 started. Hong Kong has recorded nearly 3,000 deaths this year, with the majority among the elderly, the territory’s most vaccine-hesitant group. “I am on tenterhooks all the time, fearing a...
Source: taipeitimes.com
