China Uses Omicron to Crack Down on Hong Kong

The territory’s panicked bureaucrats haven’t helped

Although Singapore over the past two weeks has been averaging more than 10,000 Covid-19 cases a day, the medical system appears not overly stretched, with just 1,523 in hospital on February 20. Of those, a third were there for non-Covid reasons – 195 receiving oxygen and 39 in intensive care. Most of the latter, along with the few deaths, were among the…