The Hong Kong Jockey Club Shau Kei Wan clinic has been converted to a designated Covid-19 facility as the city struggles to battle the fifth wave of the pandemic. Until the most recent outbreak, all patients were treated in dedicated Covid isolation wards, and close contacts were sent to a quarantine camp. Like mainland China, Hong Kong has adhered to a zero-Covid strategy, which has largely kept the virus out but left the business hub cut off from the world. One of Chan’s big concerns was the forecast for wet weather. People sleep in hospital beds with temperatures falling at night-time outside the Caritas Medical Centre in Hong Kong on February 16, 2022, as hospitals become overwhelmed with the city facing its worst Covid-19 coronavirus wave to date. “We are worried that the patients’ conditions will worsen later this week,” he told AFP, calling the situation “very undesirable”. “Some of my colleagues say we are now in battlefield mode,” said David Chan, an emergency room nurse at Caritas who is also the acting president of Hong Kong’s Hospital Authority Employees Alliance.
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