Letters | No world-class events can come to Hong Kong under our Covid-19 policy
- Readers discuss the dearth of international sports and cultural events in Hong Kong, the difficulty of booking flights out of the city and why frontline civil servants deserve a bigger pay rise

The government’s King Canute policy on Covid-19 remains bewildering. The rest of the developed world has relegated the virus to where it belongs, together with all the other risks that we deal with day to day but which don’t stop us dead in our tracks.
Airports overseas are struggling with the massive upsurge in regional travel. Meanwhile, our own airport is like a morgue.
Sports and cultural events overseas are back, and life has very much returned to normal in the rest of the world. Yes, a lot of people still get Covid, like any other virus, but they generally get over it quickly without any serious consequences and they don’t make a big deal about it.
So why are we so different from those countries? Have they got it all wrong and we alone are right?
