HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong authorities stated on Sunday provides of greens and chilled poultry into the worldwide monetary hub could also be briefly disrupted after some mainland items car drivers preliminarily examined constructive for COVID-19.
Hong Kong imports 90% of its meals, with the mainland its most vital supply, particularly for recent meals. Customers have already seen a scarcity of some overseas imported items, together with premium seafood, as a consequence of stringent flight restrictions.
“The mainland authorities and the (Hong Kong) authorities are working carefully collectively to agency up the detailed preparations to expedite the logistics of meals provide for Hong Kong in order to make the availability state of affairs resumes regular as quickly as potential,” the federal government stated in a press release.
On Saturday, the town of seven.5 million individuals reported a document 1,514 new coronavirus infections, up from Friday’s 1,325, within the largest check but for the Chinese language territory’s “dynamic zero-COVID” technique.
After a gathering with mainland Chinese language officers throughout the border in Shenzhen, Hong Kong’s No. 2 official, John Lee, stated on Saturday that China will assist the town to deal with the increasing outbreak by offering testing, remedy and quarantine capability. He stated there have been no plans for a mainland-style lockdown for now.
The measures will give Hong Kong a respiration area as medical capability turns into stretched on all fronts, though there have been no particular particulars of the plans and it was not clear how shortly they may very well be applied.
Hong Kong and mainland China are amongst few locations on the earth nonetheless aiming to suppress each COVID-19 outbreak, however the Omicron variant has confirmed robust to maintain below management.
(Reporting By Anne Marie Roantree; Modifying by William Mallard)
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