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Hong Kong has put recently-announced plans to test its entire population for Covid on hold, saying the new priority is to reduce a skyrocketing mortality rate from the disease. The global financial hub now has the highest Covid death rate in the world, recording about 150 deaths per day, according to Our World in Data, a project based at Oxford University. Making her first appearance in two weeks, Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Wednesday that there was “no specific timeframe” for the compulsory universal testing drive she announced at her last public address, saying at the time that...
