COVID-19: Hong Kong leader says city is not yet past Covid peak
Carrie Lam
HongKongleaderCarrie Lam said on Saturday that thecity'sCOVID-19 outbreak wasn'tyetpastitspeakdespite recent daily case numbers showing a slight levelling off.
"At this moment, we couldnotcomfortably say that we havepastthepeak," Lam told reporters.
Health authorities reported 29,381 new infections on Friday, compared with 31,402 new cases on Thursday.
Lam added that fresh food supplies from mainland China had largely been restored to previous levels, after panic buying by the public in recent weeks had seen some supermarket shelves emptied on a daily basis.
In total since early 2020, the global financial hub has recorded almost 650,000COVID-19 infections and about 3,500 deaths - most of them in thepasttwo weeks.
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HongKong, like mainland China, has adopted a "dynamic zero" strategy that seeks to curb infections with strict mitigation measures, even as most other major cities learn to live with the virus. China andHongKong's approach has been severely tested by the fast spreading Omicron variant.
HongKongregistered the most deaths per million people globally in the week to March 9, according to data publication Our World in Data. Most have been unvaccinated senior citizens.
A senior Chinese official overseeingHongKongaffairs, Xia Baolong, who has been helping coordinate China's response to aidHongKongin trying to contain the outbreak, was cited by the China News Agency as saying thecity'sCOVID-19 situation was still severe and to adequately prepare oneself mentally for this "long-term war".
He added that the government needed to do carry out its anti-epidemic work in a precise manner like "acupuncture" and to strengthen inter-departmental coordination.
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Responding to the remarks, Lam said "I can assure him ... that we are putting in every effort to fight this epidemic," while dismissing the view that theHongKonggovernment wasn't working effectively and in unison to battle the outbreak.