Hong Kong working-class district reels as COVID runs rampant
Lam Foon, 98, sits propped up and swaddled in soggy woollen blankets in a hospital bed just outside the entrance to Hong Kong’s Caritas Medical Centre, waiting for tests to confirm her preliminary positive result for COVID-19.
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Lam Foon, 98, sits propped up and swaddled in soggy woollen blankets in a hospital bed just outside the entrance to Hong Kong’s Caritas Medical Centre, waiting for tests to confirm her preliminary positive result for COVID-19.
Lam Foon, a 98-year-old who tested preliminary positive for the Omicron variant of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), lies on a hospital bed outside the accident and emergency ward of Caritas Medical Centre in Sham Shui Po district, following the COVID-… [3875 chars]
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