Hong Kong has avoided large-scale outbreaks. But that containment has come at a significant cost to the city.
Keiji Fukuda, the head of the school of public health at the University of Hong Kong, says the city's efforts to contain imported cases of the coronavirus are working.Keiji Fukuda, the head of the school of public health at the University of Hong Kong, says the city's efforts to contain imported cases of the coronavirus are working."Just a few miles away across the border, we have much larger numbers of cases," Fukuda points out.
"And so we contacted them," Chuang says,"categorized them into close contacts [of earlier cases] and those who have passed their incubation period. We put around 16 of them under quarantine and about 100 of them under medical surveillance." He points out that in the first two months of this outbreak two people in Hong Kong died from COVID-19 while more than 100 died from the flu.
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