Hong Kong’s Quarantine Reduction: Too Little, Too Late
A demoralized city demands to join the rest of the world
By: Malick Gai
The August 8 announcement by Hong Kong’s new Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu (above) reducing the city’s Covid-19 quarantine is late, inadequate, out of step with the rest of the world, and a mockery of its pretensions to be a “global city,” critics say.
Starting on August 12, the mandatory quarantine period was reduced…
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