Several of city-state’s newspapers ran screenshots of the video. FMTNews Hygiene Saliva Covid19 Coronavirus
HONG KONG: A hedge fund manager in Hong Kong has publicly apologised after a parody video of him licking his finger and wiping it on a handrail in a metro car went viral, sparking anger in the city which is grappling to contain an outbreak of the new coronavirus.
“I made light of the Covid-19 situation in a parody video that was only intended for a handful of friends,” Joel Werner, chief investment officer at Solitude Capital Management said in a public Facebook post.Werner said in the post that he unreservedly apologised to anyone he may have offended, adding that he had used hand sanitiser before and after touching the pole, and had also wiped the pole with hand sanitiser afterwards.
Some Hong Kong people have expressed concern that the city’s expatriate population has adopted fewer precautionary measures to halt the spread of the virus than locals, for example by not wearing surgical face masks. “These acts, which ignore public morality, run counter to Hong Kong society’s determination to fight the epidemic,” MTR said in an emailed statement.Phone calls to Solitude Capital went unanswered and the fund’s website showed a black screen on Thursday morning.
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