Coronavirus: mandatory testing for Hong Kong housing block residents after nine Covid-19 patients linked to same cluster

Hong Kong’s health authorities will carry out mandatory testing of residents in a coronavirus-hit public housing block in Sha Tin, even as the city got a brief respite from new Covid-19 cases on Wednesday after a string of infections linked to a local cluster in the past three days.The decision came after public health experts called for mandatory screening for those who had not returned test bottles. They also heaped pressure on the government to increase testing capacities in both the public…

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