Control Outbreak "Above Everything Else": China's Xi Jinping To Hong Kong
NDTV
Hong Kong is currently in the throes of its worst-ever coronavirus outbreak, registering over a thousand confirmed cases a day as hospitals reach their breaking point.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping has called for Hong Kong to take "all necessary measures" to control an Omicron-fuelled Covid-19 outbreak, Beijing-affiliated newspapers in the city said Wednesday, a day after leader Carrie Lam ruled out a China-style hard lockdown.
Hong Kong is currently in the throes of its worst-ever coronavirus outbreak, registering over a thousand confirmed cases a day as hospitals reach their breaking point.
Lam this week insisted a hard "wholesale" lockdown -- which the mainland has imposed on various cities in order to stamp out cases -- will not be imposed on Hong Kongers.
By Wednesday, local newspapers Ta Kung Pao and Wen Wei Po -- which answer to Beijing's office in the city -- reported Xi had called on authorities to "implement every necessary measure to ensure the protection" of public health.
