Dance off: the niche Hong Kong social scene behind city’s biggest Covid-19 cluster

Drawn by the music and the mingling, many Hong Kong retirees converge on the city’s vast network of dance halls, escaping from the clutches of boredom and into the arms of their shimmying partners.Eager to impress, well-heeled, typically female members of the community can spend huge sums on younger instructors, even using speedboats to ferry teachers to the city from mainland China for a night on the tiles.But the community – and the growing cluster of infections linked to it – cuts across…

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