Health workers walk out of a building under lockdown in Hong Kong on March 25. Photo: EPA
Health workers walk out of a building under lockdown in Hong Kong on March 25. Photo: EPA
Kris Hartley
Opinion

Opinion

Kris Hartley and Donald Low

Hong Kong must rebuild public trust to strengthen its crisis response, as Covid-19 mass-testing debacle shows

  • We don’t know if Hong Kong would have been up to the task of carrying out mass testing for Covid-19, as it was abandoned for want of mobilisation capacity
  • But a more salient issue is the erosion of social capital and civil society, without which a government’s crisis response capacity is weaker and less effectual

Health workers walk out of a building under lockdown in Hong Kong on March 25. Photo: EPA
Health workers walk out of a building under lockdown in Hong Kong on March 25. Photo: EPA
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