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Hong Kong Free Press
Hong Kong Free Press
Hong Kong’s fifth wave of Covid-19 shows no signs of abating, with epidemiological modelling from the University of Hong Kong projecting the daily number of infections could peak at almost 183,000 in early- to mid-March. As case numbers rise, stories of how the pandemic has affected – and will continue to impact – the city’s most vulnerable communities have emerged. Over the past two weeks, HKFP has reported on a domestic worker who was forced to sleep rough after testing positive for Covid-19, another who spent a cold night outside a hospital with her three-month-old baby waiting for admissio…