Hong Kong reported a record 614 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, healthauthorities said, in the biggest test yet for the city's zero-COVID strategy as it grapples to contain a growing outbreak.
The global financial hub, which is following mainland China's strategy of suppressing all coronavirus outbreaks as soon as possible, has seen cases soar since January with over 2,000 infections compared with just two in December.
The economic and psychological tolls from the hardline approach are rapidly rising, with measures becoming more draconian than those first implemented at the start of the pandemic in 2020. Thousands of people queued up in rainy weather across the city on Monday for mandatory COVID-19 tests, ordered for people who had visited locations where infections had been reported.
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