Coronavirus: Hong Kong health experts doubt new local cases will trigger return to tough preventive measures

Hong Kong can continue with relaxed social distancing measures as long as a newly recorded cluster of local coronavirus cases do not erupt into a wider community outbreak, public health experts say.The coming days would be critical to determine the scale of the latest infections as authorities carry out widespread saliva tests within the community, according to Dr David Hui Shu-cheong and Dr Lam Ching-choi, the government’s health and cabinet-level adviser respectively.If a large number of…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3084283/coronavirus-hong-kong-health-experts-doubt-new