HK medical staff strike for third day as local transmission cases rise

| Medical workers in Hong Kong enter a third day of strike action on Wednesday, piling pressure on the city's government to seal the border with mainland China as the number of locally transmitted cases of a new coronavirus increased.

The coronavirus epidemic, which emerged in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in December, has rekindled memories in Hong Kong of a 2003 outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome , another coronavirus that began in China and killed nearly 300 people in the city. The city's chief executive, Carrie Lam, has suspended some links with the mainland and closed some border crossings but she has left three open, arguing that to close the entire border would be inappropriate, impractical and discriminatory.

On Wednesday, dozens of medical representatives including the chairperson of HAEA, Winnie Yu, marched to government headquarters to press their demands for the border to be sealed.

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