LettersHong Kong Sevens staring at same fate as Jumbo Floating Restaurant

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The ludicrous proposal to make the Rugby Sevens a closed-loop event beggars belief (“Hong Kong Sevens plans ‘closed loop’ tournament, CEO eyes ‘catalyst’ for city”, June 22).

Are they now proposing tag rugby, where a runner can dash on to sanitise the ball between each touch? The reality is that if Hong Kong remains under quarantine restrictions in November, the Sevens will simply become another Jumbo restaurant, sunk with little hope of recovery.

I refer to “Coronavirus: how the Shanghai outbreak exposed the Chinese health system’s fragility” (June 6). Shanghai’s advanced economy and abundance of foreign talent generates demand for quality healthcare. As such, the necessary infrastructure would already have been in place at the start of the outbreak. While Shanghai might not have the highest number per capita of doctors or hospital beds in the country, it is still on par with or ahead of places like the US or the UK, which are currently dealing with Covid-19 with no danger to their health systems.