Hong Kong's zero-Covid fight takes mental toll on society: Experts

Infections have surged to record highs with more than 500,000 infections and more than 2,500 deaths most of which have been in the past two weeks.

Hong Kong resident Yeung waited for 13 hours outside a hospital in the city's eastern district in cold, rainy weather with his 3-year-old daughter, who had a high fever, before they could be admitted for COVID-19 treatment. By the time they could enter, her fever had gone down and she didn't require medical attention.
 

Yet the 42-year-old utilities worker had to stay in the hospital for four nights without a bed, because he and his daughter were not allowed to leave. They were then sent to a government isolation centre for nine more days.
 

His biggest stress came not from