Situationen i Hong Kong

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300,000 Hongkongers to come to the UK over the next five years.

Hong Kong fears food supply disruption as Covid hits drivers in worsening outbreak

No light at the end’: How Hong Kong’s Covid response went so wrong

A policy of admitting every positive case to hospital means thousands are being added to an already huge backlog every day

The beds pile up outside Hong Kong’s Caritas hospital. In the cold night, elderly patients lie on gurneys covered with blankets and thermal foil sheets

11 public hospitals were operating at or beyond capacity as of Friday. Private hospitals refuse to take Covid patients

At North Lantau hospital a doctor on the emergency ward says frontline medics can no longer keep up with the mounting caseload. More than 10,000 Covid patients are waiting for hospital treatment or isolation during Hong Kong’s Omicron outbreak, with thousands more added to the backlog each day.

90-year-old woman lying outside for three days and still she could not be admitted

policy which saw every positive case hospitalised regardless of symptoms. Close contacts were isolated offsite in government facilities

Labs buckled under a requirement for a second test to confirm every “preliminary positive”, with reported delays of up to five days.

But it’s going to get worse. “We are nowhere near the peak.”

Hong Kong social media is littered with mirthless and sarcastic responses of “if only they’d had two years to prepare”.

Hong Kong had early and plentiful access to vaccines, But for a range of reasons the immunisation rates in older age groups are alarmingly low. In aged care homes it is about 20%

Instead of helping us get out, the government’s ever stricter restrictions and lack of support is more like pushing us further inside and trapping us there.”

Press release
Hong Kong elections, 20 December 2021: Foreign Secretary's joint statement with international partners
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The UK, along with the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, has issued a statement following the Hong Kong legislative council elections.

Joint statement by foreign ministers of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and the United States Secretary of State:

We, the Foreign Ministers of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, and the United States Secretary of State, noting the outcome of the Legislative Council elections in Hong Kong, express our grave concern over the erosion of democratic elements of the Special Administrative Region’s electoral system. Actions that undermine Hong Kong’s rights, freedoms and high degree of autonomy are threatening our shared wish to see Hong Kong succeed.

Since handover, candidates with diverse political views have contested elections in Hong Kong. Yesterday’s election has reversed this trend. ...

We also remain gravely concerned at the wider chilling effect of the National Security Law and the growing restrictions on freedom of speech and freedom of assembly, ...