Hong Kong announced on Tuesday that all residents would have to undergo mandatory Covid-19 testing from next month, as the city reels from China’s worst outbreak since the start of the pandemic.
Carrie Lam, Hong Kong’s chief executive, announced the latest measures as experts warned that more than a third of residents will be in isolation within weeks and more than half will have had Covid by April unless containment policies were strengthened.
The government has been ordered by Chinese president Xi Jinping to adhere to Beijing’s “zero-Covid” policy, which requires local authorities to isolate infected patients — even if they have only mild symptoms or are asymptomatic — as well as close contacts.
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