This post was originally published on South China Morning Post.
Coronavirus: once-bustling Hong Kong district now quiet under mandatory testing order, but fears of infection are nothing new for many residents
Yung and her family went to get checked for the coronavirus on Monday morning after learning that their block of flats in Yau Tsim Mong district – which has been hit by an escalating Covid-19 outbreak – was subject to mandatory testing.But, like some of her neighbours on Nanking Street, this was not the first test she had taken. Indeed, starting long before the government’s testing order, she and her family had taken several, motivated by concerns over what they saw as the heightened infection…