Hospital Crisis In Hong Kong Amid Worst-Ever Covid Outbreak

Hong Kong is now scrambling to find a place to build a makeshift mega-hospital while seeking mainland's help with testing capacity and the construction of Covid quarantine facilities.

Hong Kong is in the throes of its worst-ever coronavirus outbreak, as residents are suddenly confronted with a severely overstretched healthcare system and a tightening of restrictions even as much of the world opens up.

The city's strict but successful "zero-Covid" policy had largely kept the virus out for months.

But when the highly transmissible Omicron variant broke through Hong Kong's defences, authorities were caught flat-footed with a dangerously under-vaccinated population and few plans in place to deal with a mass outbreak.

How Prepared Were They?