'Battlefield mode': Hong Kong hospitals buckle under Omicron wave

HONG KONG, China — Huddled under blankets and thermal shields, dozens of elderly patients shivered on gurneys outside a hospital serving one of Hong Kong’s poorest communities — a grim tableau for the city as its health system buckles under an Omicron-fuelled coronavirus wave.

On Monday, Caritas Medical Centre in Sham Shui Po district started setting up isolation tents outside its facilities — initially limiting one Covid patient per tent. Until the most recent outbreak, all patients were treated in dedicated Covid isolation wards, and close contacts were sent to a quarantine camp.

Despite ample supplies, only 43 percent of those aged 70-79 and 26 percent of over-80s opted to get jabbed.

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