Hong Kong Leader Says Coronavirus Now Spreading ‘Out Of Control’.
Food and Environmental Hygiene Department contractors prepare to take part in a cleaning and disinfection of Pei Ho Street Market in the Sham Shui Po district of Hong Kong on July 17, 2020, as the city experiences another spike in COVID-19 coronavirus cases.
However, in the last two weeks, infections have spiked once more and doctors fear the new outbreak is now spreading undetected in the densely packed territory of 7.5 million people.On Sunday chief executive Carrie Lam said more than 500 infections had been confirmed in the last fortnight alone, nearly a third since the outbreak began.
Lam announced new social distancing measures last week, shuttering many businesses including bars, gyms and nightclubs, and ordering everyone to wear masks on public transport.On Sunday Lam announced even more regulations, including plans to make it compulsory to wear masks inside any public indoor venue — and a new order for non-essential civil servants to work for home.
She said further social distancing measures would be rolled out if the daily infection rate did not ease in coming days.“We can’t just make a simple and extreme move to cut everything at once,” Lam said. So far twelve people have been died after contracting the virus in Hong Kong — four in the last fortnight.
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