Hong Kong lockdown: more than 1,700 disciplinary officers to be deployed in unprecedented move on 150 blocks in COVID-19 coronavirus-hit area - Januar

[sharon sanders]

Hong Kong lockdown: more than 1,700 disciplinary officers to be deployed in unprecedented move on 150 blocks in coronavirus-hit area

• Most drastic measure yet in more than a year of pandemic control is expected to start early on Saturday morning
• City records 61 new coronavirus cases, including 55 that were locally transmitted

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https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong...56/coronavirus-hong-kong-place-tens-thousands

 

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https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong...how-tell-if-your-hong-kong-neighbourhood-next

Last Saturday at 4am, the government invoked for the first time its newly acquired power to lock down an area, closing off a 500,000 sq ft patch of bustling Jordan district – bordered by Woosung Street, Nanking Street, Battery Street and Kansu Street – in order to enforce compulsory screening of residents.

The operation, which was leaked to the media beforehand, ended 44 hours later at midnight on Monday, and uncovered 13 coronavirus cases among the more than 7,000 people tested – a positive rate of 0.17 per cent. The city’s leader hailed the operation as a success and said the government would implement “smaller-scale, ambush-style restriction testing operations” in the future.

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong...hong-kong-lockdown-residents-gripe-carrie-lam

Earlier in the day, Lam defended an
“ambush-style” lockdown
that uncovered just one infection in a working-class neighbourhood the night before.

Since the emergence of the virus locally a year ago, Hong Kong has experienced four Covid-19 waves and confirmed 10,282 infections, with 174 deaths.