Coronavirus in China: Hong Kong may pay higher price than mainland cities in long term, expert says

Hong Kong’s approach to containing the spread of Covid-19 differs from those used in Beijing and Xinjiang, and the city could pay a high price for it in the long term, a leading Chinese epidemiologist said, as all three regions tackle fresh waves of the disease.“Hong Kong’s strategy is to keep the pandemic at a low level rather than trying to achieve zero cases,” Zhang Wenhong, head of Shanghai’s Covid-19 clinical expert team, said on Weibo – China’s Twitter-like platform – on Saturday.“Such…

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