Tough time for Hong Kong's refugees as Covid-19 panic buying leaves supermarket shelves empty, China News – AsiaOne

HONG KONG – Panic buying in Hong Kong on fears of a new Covid-19 lockdown has hit the city’s refugees particularly hard because they can only spend their food allowance in supermarkets that regularly run out of supplies, aid workers and refugees say. Hong Kong is on tenterhooks as it awaits a mass Covid-19 testing campaign with cases surging and many residents expecting a new lockdown in the city of more than 7 million people. For Hong Kong’s 14,000 refugees, the situation is particularly tough as they can only use the HK$1,200 (S$208) worth of food tokens they get a…