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Hong Kong fourth wave: Carrie Lam pledges stepped-up testing amid Covid-19 surge, says ‘no suggestion’ race or ethnicity have played role in recent spread
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor has appealed for calm a day after the city’s Covid-19 caseload surged back into triple digits, vowing to step up compulsory testing in virus-hit districts.Lam also addressed concerns that members of ethnic minority communities caught up in an escalating outbreak among old tenement buildings in Yau Tsim Mong district were being unfairly targeted.“I really appeal to all of you, this is not an occasion to apportion blame,” she said.“There is absolutely…