HKSAR must be better prepared, equipped for future outbreaks of coronavirus

Even with daily caseloads now plateauing below 20,000, the fifth wave of COVID-19 is still ongoing. But with the central government 's unrelenting and full-scale support, I am cautiously optimistic that daily new cases will drop to around 100 in two months' time. But what matters more is thinking ahead and planning to reconstruct the post-pandemic Hong Kong . We should learn from the mistake of underestimating the impact of omicron and must prepare for the possibility of a sixth wave caused by deltacron or other variants. We must be better prepared than we were for this current wave. This…