Readers urge the Hong Kong government to adopt a principles-based Covid-19 policy, argue that mask-wearing can impede communication, question the rules covering live bands, and draw attention to the need to resume full-day classes in primary schools.
City’s fourth imported Omicron infection case had moved freely within a zone of the airport reserved for transit travellers while stranded for four days.
HKU epidemiologist blasts new requirement as a ‘waste of resources’, as local group warns it could deter testing among low-income residents who risk losing jobs during long isolation period.
From ‘explosive outbreak’ to endless social distancing and vaccines: Hong Kong’s top 20 Covid-19 headlines of hope, despair
Since the first coronavirus case was reported in Hong Kong last January, the city has fought the pandemic all year, and is now in its fourth wave of infections
Residents have coped with loosening and tightening of social-distancing rules, but uncertainty looms as a new strain puts the world on edge