China Offers Hong Kong Covid Test Help as Outbreak Spreads
- Carrie Lam says city should consider using that support
- Financial hub is fighting an outbreak at huge housing complex
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China has offered Hong Kong help to ramp-up a mass-testing blitz to stem an omicron outbreak in the financial hub, the city’s leader said, adding that broader lockdowns were not yet necessary.
“Guangdong province has expressed to my office that they are happy to render support,” Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam told reporters at a regular press briefing Tuesday. “So, it’s about considering how we can best utilize their support to help Hong Kong.”