Hong Kong leader says city is not yet past COVID-19 peak

HONG KONG: Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Saturday that the city's COVID-19 outbreak wasn't yet past its peak despite recent daily case numbers showing a slight levelling off.Health authorities reported 29,381 new infections on Friday, compared with 31,402 new cases on Thursday.

In total since early 2020, the global financial hub has recorded almost 650,000 COVID-19 infections and about 3,500 deaths - most of them in the past two weeks. Hong Kong registered the most deaths per million people globally in the week to Mar 9, according to data publication Our World in Data. Most have been unvaccinated senior citizens.

But several medical experts, daily figures and medical models show that Hong Kong IS past the peak?

So considering how clueless she is, we likely have passed it already.

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Hong Kong leader plans to reopen city only after controlling latest COVID outbreakHong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Thursday it was not the time to lift a ban on flights from nine countries including the United States and Britain, with plans to reopen the city only after the government controls a deepening coronavirus outbreak. The global financial hub has some of the most draconian restrictions in place to combat a surge in coronavirus cases that has seen the city suffer the most deaths globally per million people in the week to March 7, according to the Our World in Data publication. Her comments come a day after she announced a shift in her government's approach to tackling the coronavirus, devoting more medical resources to elderly people as infections and deaths climb rapidly amongst the city's mainly unvaccinated seniors.
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