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Omicron Paralyzes Hong Kong

Officials mount up and ride off in all directions at once

Mar 09, 2022
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By: Tim Hamlett

What a difference three months can make. At the beginning of December, Hong Kong basked in a world-leading record of reducing the impact of the Covid-19 virus on the population. There was a mere trickle of cases, most of them imported by travelers, and the number of deaths for a long time hovered in the region of 250.

People could, and did…

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