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China Begins Mass COVID-19 Testing in Hong Kong, Raising Fears of DNA Surveillance August 3, 2020 Beijing is now directly intervening in Hong Kong’s management of COVID-19 in what many Hong Kong residents fear is an attempt to exert control over the city in the guise of support. This past week, China announced its plan to send a 60-person team into Hong Kong to conduct widespread COVID-19 testing through nucleic acid tests. On Sunday, seven medical workers sent from China checked into Hong Kong’s infamous Metropark Hotel—the same hotel where a 2003 SARS super-spreading event occurred involving a Chinese doctor’s...
