Hong Kong’s COVID-19 Misery Deepens With New Social Restrictions, Vegetable Shortage

Hong Kong’s COVID-19 Misery Deepens With New Social Restrictions, Vegetable Shortage
People wearing protective masks and queue at a makeshift nucleic acid testing center for COVID-19, in Tsuen Wan of Hong Kong, on Feb. 8, 2022. Lam Yik/Reuters
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HONG KONG—Hong Kong announced stringent new coronavirus restrictions and record new infections on Tuesday, while a shortage of vegetables added to the misery as truck drivers who tested positive for COVID-19 were unable to bring them from mainland China.

The Asian financial hub reported a record 625 coronavirus cases on Tuesday, with cases likely to continue rising rapidly, authorities said. There were 2,600 infections over the past two weeks compared with just two in December.