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FAST FIVE: Hong Kong Imposes Unprecedented COVID Lockdown As China Scrambles To Protect Beijing To enforce the measure, the city will deploy more than 1.7K “disciplined services officers”– 500 from police, and the rest from customs, immigration, fire services and correctional services – in an “unprecedented” bid to protect a neighborhood stuffed with ageing, subdivided flats, apartments. Elsewhere in China, authorities in Beijing and Hubei are setting up more rounds of mandatory COVID testing covering millions of people as they continue to scramble to keep the virus out of Beijing. About 4 per cent of the city's population of 7.5...
