Hong Kong protesters retreat as coronavirus outbreak creates 'uneasy calm'

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Coronavirus does what neither the Hong Kong police, the local legislature or the Chinese Communist Party could as the outbreak pauses the city's protest movement.

"The minute this health crisis is over, bang, you'll see them all back on the streets, because nothing has been solved, nothing has been fixed, it's just the coronavirus coming along and interrupting everything."

The Australian Government declares the country is"pandemic ready" as fresh coronavirus hotspots crop up across the globe, but how have other countries handled the outbreak of COVID19? "So they've come out to protest against that and when they've come out to protest against that it comes back to the same old problems regarding the anti-government movement.

"Not on the industrial scale that you've seen over the past few months last year but it's still happening very much."

 

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