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Hong Kong’s leader emphasised on Wednesday the focus of her government’s pandemic strategy was now on reducing deaths and severe cases, signalling a dramatic shift from universal testing which she said would now be postponed to a date to be fixed. Facing the media for the first time since February 22, Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor also gave wide-ranging updates on the battle against the fifth wave of Covid-19 infections, from giving more help to elderly homes ravaged by infections and deaths, to having a public hospital repurposed for infected residents and fresh help from private care facilities. On...
