HONG KONG, March 9 — Hong Kong resident Yeung waited for 13 hours outside a hospital in the city’s eastern district in cold, rainy weather with his 3-year-old daughter, who had a high fever, before they could be admitted for Covid-19 treatment.Yet the 42-year-old utilities worker had to stay in the hospital for four nights without a bed, because he and his daughter were not allowed to leave. They were then sent to a government isolation centre for nine more days.
Yeung’s tale is one of many in the global financial hub, which has some of the world’s most stringent coronavirus regulations more than two years after the pandemic started. “At the cost of keeping us safe physically ... It seems perhaps they have lost sight of the humanity in it. For all these measures, there is this underlying fear,” said Dr Judy Blaine, wellbeing specialist at Hong Kong consultancy Odyssey.
More than 900,000 students are now home from school again. Playgrounds and most are venues shut, parents are struggling to work from home and teachers are warning of the long-term repercussions of keeping children out of class. “The pandemic has not been a day or two, it has been two years and the lack of supplies and support from the government has made everyone panic,” said Sze Lai Shan, who works for the Society for Community Organisation, which supports low-income families.
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