For the past two weeks, a record flow of Hong Kong nationals has been leaving the city.

The reason ?

They are worried about the management of the health crisis in a city plagued by chaos in the face of the Omicron variant.

“Zero-Covid” policy

Since the start of the pandemic, the city of 7.4 million inhabitants, like mainland China, has applied a strict "zero-covid" policy thanks to which it has recorded only 12,000 cases in two years. .

But since the appearance of Omicron in January, the number of infections has exploded, with now tens of thousands of daily cases.

Overcrowded hospitals

For the past few weeks, hospitals have been saturated and the images of Covid patients piled up on stretchers in the open air in front of the emergency services have shocked Hong Kongers.

Morgues are full and thousands of asymptomatic patients are separated from their relatives and herded into isolation camps.

Pandemic-related restrictions have been hard to bear for Hong Kong's foreign workers, who make up around 8% of the population.

More than 71,000 people, including 63,000 residents, left the city in February, a record since the start of the pandemic, including more than 40,000 in the past two weeks.

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