Letters | Hong Kong must prepare for returning overseas students to avoid summer outbreak

  • Readers discuss ways to make family reunion safe and affordable as the pandemic persists, and the growing toll of Covid-19 restrictions on mental health

Passengers wait at check-in counters at Hong Kong International Airport on June 29, 2021. Photo: Edmond So
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The second wave of the Covid-19 outbreak in Hong Kong started around March 2020 when many overseas students returned to Hong Kong for the Easter holidays from countries including the UK and the US. The government did not act fast enough and the quarantine measures were not as strict as they are now. We saw defiant youngsters walking around town or hanging out with friends while wearing tracking wristbands.
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