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Hong Kong will tighten some anti-pandemic measures, including imposing compulsory quarantine on elderly Covid-19 patients at a government facility and extending mandatory rapid antigen tests to groups of more than eight people dining together at restaurants. Secretary for Health Lo Chung-mau on Friday said the policy changes were justified because of a resurgence of coronavirus infections and warned the government would not rule out tighter restrictions if the situation worsened, with officials predicting cases would double in two weeks and exceed 10,000 soon. Hong Kong logs over 8,500 Covid cases; warnings of ‘heavy healthcare burden’ “The government is very concerned,...
