Hong Kong plans four-day lockdown amid mass testing: media


Local media reports on Marach 1 of a pending lockdown triggered waves of panic-buying as residents emptied supermarket shelves and stripped pharmacies of supplies. - Reuters

HONG KONG (Bloomberg): Hong Kong is planning a four-day limited lockdown at the start of a compulsory Covid-19 testing blitz later this month, local news outlet HK01 reported Wednesday (March 2).

The preliminary plan is to test the financial hub’s 7.4 million people from March 26 to April 3, HK01 said, citing people it did not identify.

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