Hong Kong third wave: as city’s hospitals overflow, officials eye transfer of recovering Covid-19 patients to community facilities

Community facilities in Hong Kong will be used to treat Covid-19 patients in stable condition as early as this month in a bid to ease the burden at overflowing public hospitals as the city battles its third wave of pandemic infections.A holiday camp-turned-quarantine centre has been identified as the first facility to take in patients as the city’s tally of infections reached 1,713 on Friday.Thus far, all patients confirmed with the virus have been treated in public hospitals, where there are 1…