The government must tackle gaps in its Covid-19 strategy, stockpile more medicine and better allocate resources or run the risk of Hong Kong being overwhelmed by a new expected wave of infections, health experts have warned, as the daily number of confirmed and suspected cases approached record highs.
The ability of authorities to carry out contact tracing urgently needed to be expanded as clusters continued to mushroom across the city and more test kits should be distributed in the community, they said on Thursday.
Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan, the head of the communicable disease branch of the Centre for Health Protection, maintained that the current screening capacity was sufficient but agreed an onslaught of infections should be expected following the Lunar New Year festival that was a traditional time for family reunions.
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