Letters | Fourth wave or not, Hong Kong must get tough on social distancing

Crowds wait for a cable car ride in Tung Chung, during the long weekend celebrating National Day and the day following the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival, on October 2. Photo: Dickson Lee
I am writing in response to the news about the alarming signs of Covid-19 rebounding in Hong Kong over the past few days (“Two Hong Kong schools closed as student among 11 new Covid-19 cases”, October 12). There were about 18 new cases of Covid-19 last Thursday, including 14 local cases, taking the caseload to the highest level since the third wave of the coronavirus outbreak appeared to have abated late last month.
Not only were there four local cases yesterday out of eight positive tests in total, these included two with unknown sources. Two school campuses are now shut in Tuen Mun, after another in Tseung Kwan O had to be shut for disinfection last week when a student was infected. A vocational school also closed for two weeks over a reported case. All this barely two weeks after in-class lessons were resumed in the city.
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