Total infections in the global financial hub have surged to about 600,000, including more than 2,600 deaths – most in the past two weeks.
swept through care homes and deaths climbed rapidly among the mainly unvaccinated seniors.
“It is a major exercise which cannot be done overnight. If it is not prepared with all the details and mobilized with all the resources, it’s not possible.” The city suffered the most deaths globally per million people in the week to March 7, according to the Our World in Data publication. China and Hong Kong have adopted a “dynamic zero” strategy that involves eliminating infections with strict mitigation measures as opposed to the approach adopted in other places of relying on high vaccination rates and moderate mitigation like masks in an effort to “live with COVID.”
Medical experts from the University of Hong Kong have estimated that by the end of April the number of people infected in the city of 7.4 million people could be about 4.3 million, with a death toll of 5,000.
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