Hong Kong lawmaker calls for a full lockdown to spare business

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HONG KONG/SYDNEY - Hong Kong should impose a strict, city-wide lockdown for nine days to rein in its snowballing Covid-19 outbreak rather than prolong social-distancing restrictions that are strangli

ng business, lawmaker Michael Tien said.

Lam unveiled details late on Tuesday of a plan to test the city's 7.4 million residents three times in March, and to extend social-distancing curbs - including limits on restaurant dining and family gatherings - until at least mid-April. Both Hong Kong and the mainland continue to pursue the"zeroCovid-19" strategy, which was successful at walling out the virus in the initial stage of the pandemic with its strict border curbs, mandatory quarantines and target of eliminating cases. But it has been outfoxed by more transmissible variants such as Omicron, and is leaving China increasingly isolated as other parts of the world start to live alongside Covid-19.

 

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