Posted on 02/22/2022 8:00:51 AM PST by dynachrome
Hong Kong will test its entire population of 7.5 million people for COVID-19 in March, the city’s leader said Tuesday, as it grapples with its worst outbreak driven by the omicron variant.
The population will be tested three times in March, Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam said.
She said testing capacity will be boosted to 1 million a day or more.
“Since we have a population of some 7 million people, testing will take about seven days,” she said.
Hong Kong has reported about 5,000 new daily infections since Feb. 15, with the cases threatening to overwhelm its healthcare system. Since the current surge began at the beginning of the year, the city has recorded nearly 54,000 cases and 145 deaths.
The order for citywide testing comes after mainland Chinese authorities dispatched epidemiologists, health workers and other medical resources last week to help contain the outbreak in the semi-autonomous Chinese city.
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The question is what will they do with the DNA database?
What is the obsession with testing? I can see why our politicians want to waste our tax money on this, but why would the Chinese waste resources on this?
“why would the Chinese waste resources”
New variant?
How very....New Zealand...of them.
How Trudeau of them.
bttt
(Great tagline)
I don’t give a flying fornication about Hong Kong.
Taiwan, on the other hand, is a different story.
Is there a Chinese version of seppuku?
Translation: “Hold the line....Biden needs out help”
“the DNA database”
I was about to write the same thing. The DNA profile of every Hongkonger in just 7 days.
Wonder if you test it on a cat or dog, how it would read?
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