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Hong Kong’s new leader, John Lee, declared the city must balance reducing travel inconvenience with limiting the spread of Covid-19, signaling a cautious virus approach.
Lee said Tuesday that he’d asked Health Secretary Lo Chung-mau to assess the “evidence and statistics to see how we can, while on the one hand, contain the spread of the pandemic and, at the same time, reduce inconvenience to travellers,†at his first weekly news briefing since being sworn into office by President Xi Jinping last week.
“One of the areas that he’s looking at is how the duration of quarantine should be handled,†Lee added. He also warned that people in Hong Kong should only be allowed to go about their “normal activities†once being “identified†as not infected, to prevent a spike in deaths.
Hong Kong’s new administration has inherited the problem that plagued Carrie Lam’s final years in office: how to balance demands from the city’s business community to open international borders with Beijing’s requirement to limit virus cases.