Hong Kong testing blitz for COVID-19

Chief Executive Carrie Lam says residents will undergo three rounds of tests, with capacity reaching one million. Source: AAP

As Hong Kong mandates COVID-19 testing amid a surge of Omicron cases

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the U-K is taking a vastly different tactic in learning to live with coronavirus.

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Highlights

• Hong Kong will ask its entire population to be tested in mid-March 
• Hong Kong is looking at a similar strategy to mainland China's "zero Covid" policy
• from 24 February, the British government will abolish all of the remaining legal pandemic rules 

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