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The exercise will focus on parameters such as availability of health facilities (covering all districts), capacity of isolation beds, oxygen-supported beds, ICU beds and ventilator-supported beds etc.
Explain what went wrong in hong kong. how did it get to this point? >> reporter: in a word, could be summed up as complacency. hong kong has had two years to stockpile testing kits, two years to build isolation centers and quarantine facilities, hong kong has had just under a year ago when the vaccination system was rolled out, just under a year to get certain members of the population, especially the most vulnerable and elderly to be vaccinated and boosted. all of that time and opportunity has been squaundered and that's why we are at this place today where hong kong is literally scrambling f...
We just heard from the health authorities within the last hour, and hong kong today has reported 7,500 new daily cases of covid-19 and 13 new deaths from the virus. mainland chinese authorities have been pledging help. help has arrived in the form of expertise in testing, in treatment, as well as building more quarantine capacity. in fact, right now mainland chinese teams on the ground here in hong kong are constructing two new isolation and treatment centers, one in pen east bay, the corner of hong kong near hong kong disneyland and the other at the cruise terminal. these isolation centers to...
Stabilize and control this growing outbreak, on sunday, hong kong reported over 6,000 new cases of covid-19, reported 14 new deaths caused by the virus. mainland china pledged help and help is on its way and help is here in the form of expertise for treatment, for testing, for building new isolation facilities. in fact, right now, mainland chinese teams are helping to build these new isolation quarantine and treatment facilities in penny's bay, that's a corner of hong kong located near hong kong disney land as well as the kitak cruise terminal. these facilities can provide some 10,000 isolatio...
Now. at the moment, hong kong reporting about 6,000 daily cases of covid-19. researchers at the university of hong kong they anticipate the number will rise to 28,000 by march. and we simply don't have enough isolation beds or quarantine centers to cope. >> yeah. such a concern. live from hong kong, many thanks. appreciate it. still to come. why america's top diplomat is defending the biden administration position to reject calls for imposing preinvasion sanctions. against russia. we'll explain.