Tag: lockdowns
Mainland Chinese direct ire at Hong Kong as Covid-19 surge prompts new lockdowns
Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Mainland Chinese social media are pointing the finger at Hong Kong for triggering the mainland’s worst Covid-19 outbreak in two years. Netizens have questioned why Hong Kong received relief and medical volunteers from the mainland as cities there face their own Covid-related lockdowns. Since the start of March 2022, more than 18,000 new Covid-19 infections have…
Coronavirus: ‘exponential’ outbreak of Omicron triggers lockdowns in Hong Kong housing blocks
Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Hong Kong health authorities have ordered a five-day lockdown for a second block of flats in a public housing estate building where at least 105 Covid-19 cases were found during mass testing that continued late on January 22, 2022. The outbreak involved at least four buildings of the Kwai Chung Estate in the city’s southwestern New…