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‘This anti-epidemic battle exposed all kinds of administrative deficiencies, and weakened some people’s confidence in the government,’ says former commerce minister Frederick Ma.
Major decisions ‘can only be carried out after communicating with the Hong Kong staff and reaching a consensus between the two teams’, a public union representative says.
City leader Carrie Lam has revealed that the first batch of the oral anti-Covid drug Paxlovid, from Pfizer, will also arrive on Monday, with more coming over the next two to three months.
Professor Lau Yu-lung, who chairs a government committee on vaccines, says local infections have plateaued, and will remain steady for three to six weeks.
The top priority must be to vaccinate the vulnerable, followed by targeting quarantine, social distancing and mask mandates. The faster a coherent strategy to end the pandemic emerges, the sooner Hongkongers’ morale will return.