The fast-spreading omicron variant is overwhelming Hong Kong, prompting mass testing, quarantines, supermarket panic-buying and a shortage of hospital beds.
FILE – Residents queue up to get tested for the coronavirus at a temporary testing center for COVID-19 in Hong Kong on Feb. 24, 2022.
FILE – A boy cries after receiving a dose of China’s Sinovac COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine at a community vaccination center in Hong Kong on Feb. 25, 2022. FILE – People wearing face masks queue up to buy vegetables as residents worry about a shortage of fresh food, at a market in Hong Kong on March 1, 2022.
FILE – A woman pushes a grocery cart across a street after buying rice and and other supplies as residents worry about a shortage of food and supplies in Hong Kong on March 3, 2022.
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