Tuesday’s evacuation of residents from a Tsing Yi housing estate, after two of them contracted the deadly coronavirus, has awakened memories of one of Hong Kong’s darkest chapters.Health officials cautioned against comparisons between the case at Cheung Hong Estate and 2003’s Sars outbreak at Amoy Gardens in Kowloon Bay, but the overnight evacuation brought a sense of déjà vu, and a reminder of residents being moved to quarantine camps 17 years earlier.Back then, the 19-block estate became…
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