Hong Kong’s Tragic Mishandling of the Coronavirus

Government, in thrall to China, delivers possibility of a major health crisis

The Philippines has become the first country to include Hong Kong in a ban on entry from China as it seeks, belatedly, to stem the spread of infection from the Novel Coronavirus, known technically as 2019-nCoV. But the Philippines is unlikely to be the only such nation as the Hong Kong government has so far rejected calls to close its border with the ma…