Residents will have to take three tests over a short period, starting in March.
Hong Kong will require its more than seven million residents to undergo coronavirus testing in March, Carrie Lam, Hong Kong’s chief executive, said Tuesday, as the territory struggles to contain its worst outbreak. Residents will have to take three tests over a short period, starting in March. And Hong Kong will expand its testing capacity to one million tests a day from about 200,000 a day by next month, Mrs. Lam said in a news conference. Hong Kong had been under pressure from pro-Beijing politicians to enforce some of the aggressive measures that have been used to quash outbreaks in mainland China, including citywide lockdowns and universal testing. But Hong Kong lacks many of the tools, like adequate staffing and movement tracking apps, to carry out such sweeping exercises. Mrs. Lam had previously ruled out extensive testing, saying Hong Kong lacked the capacity to process so many samples in a short period of time.
