HONG KONG—Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam rejected calls from a medical union on Jan. 31 to close the border with mainland China to contain the spread of the new coronavirus, and urged health staff not to go through with a threatened strike.
The recently formed Hospital Authority Employees Alliance said earlier on Friday that 6,500 of its members would go on strike if the frontier stayed open, a day after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the virus a global emergency.
