Hong Kong Tightens Coronavirus Restrictions as Cases Hit Record

Hong Kong Tightens Coronavirus Restrictions as Cases Hit Record
Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) contractors take part in a cleaning and disinfection of Ngau Chi Wan Market in Choi Hung district, Hong Kong, China, 17 July 2020. Billy H.C. Kwok/Getty Images
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HONG KONG—Hong Kong tightened coronavirus restrictions on Sunday, with non-essential civil servants told to work from home from this week, as the global financial hub reported a record number of daily cases.

Earlier on Sunday, an event by pro-democracy politicians to mark the one-year anniversary of an attack in a train station by an armed mob was stopped by police in riot gear for breaking coronavirus measures already in place that restrict group gatherings to four people.