Coronavirus: burned-out, overwhelmed and confused, Hong Kong nurses share their plight as Covid-19 rips through city


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Jennifer Lau*, a nurse at a general ward at a Hong Kong public hospital, locked herself in a washroom when her Covid-19 test result came back positive.

She had just finished an eight-hour shift. All she could do was isolate herself from patients immediately and let her family and friends know the result.

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