Hong Kong under pressure as record COVID outbreak stretches hospitals to limit.
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Lam was speaking with reporters after welcoming mainland experts who have come to Hong Kong to assist with COVID-containment efforts.Medical workers tend to patients at a makeshift treatment area outside a hospital, during COVID-19 outbreak in Hong Kong, Feb. 17, 2022. The government is looking at ways to cater for the bottleneck, including the possibility of turning hotels, housing estates and student housing into isolation facilities. There are also talks of building a makeshift mass hospital to cope with the surge, much like the one constructed in 10 days in Wuhan at the very start of the pandemic.
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