HK extends social-distancing restrictions to halt virus

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The global financial hub has also extended the closure of its airport to foreign arrivals. FMTNews HK

An elderly woman sits outside a fast food chain while a customer walks out as HK enforced social-distancing restrictions last month.

The government said a “drastic” more than two-fold spike in the number of cases in Hong Kong over the past two weeks to 936 meant the move was necessary. Four people in the former British colony have died of Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus. The global financial hub has also extended indefinitely a two-week closure of its airport to foreign arrivals that was due to end on Tuesday.

 

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