Hong Kong private doctors may face legal liabilities if they don’t test suspected Covid-19 patients for the coronavirus, expert warns

Hong Kong’s private doctors may have to face legal liabilities if they don’t test suspected Covid-19 patients for the deadly virus, a leading infectious disease expert has warned, while urging the city’s authorities to step up blood examinations following the recent discovery of a cluster of infections.Professor Yuen Kwok-yung, a microbiologist from the University of Hong Kong, repeated his call to scale up the city’s coronavirus testing capacities to 7,500 a day, as Hong Kong recorded no new…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3087900/hong-kong-private-doctors-may-face-legal