COVID chaos pushes more expats to join Hong Kong exodus

Foreigners line up at the check-in counter as they prepare to depart Hong Kong’s Chek Lap Kok International Airport, March 6, after travel restrictions hit Hong Kong’s white collar “expat” foreign workers hard. AFP-Yonhap For the last eight years Mathilde and her family have called Hong Kong home, but as COVID-19 tears through the city they are joining an exodus of foreign workers looking for an escape route. “We are leaving and we will come back to empty our house whenever that is possible,” she told AFP, declining to give her surname and nationality. “All our close friends are leaving.”…