Hong Kong defends hamster cull, warns of worsening covid outbreak
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam on Saturday warned that COVID-19 infections could be growing exponentially in a congested residential area of the city and that overall cases had also spread due to an outbreak in pet hamsters. Chief Executive Lam urged Hong Kong people to avoid gatherings ahead of next week’s Lunar New Year as officials grappled with an outbreak of the highly-infectious Omicron variant in Kwai Chung, north of the city’s Kowloon peninsula. “We are worried that the exponential growth of cases that we have seen in other parts of the world is now happening in Kwai Chung,” Lam said. The situation is testingRead More
