Are Hong Kong’s boarding houses hotbeds for Covid-19, and what is being done to prevent outbreak among city’s domestic workers?

Concerns about a new coronavirus cluster in Hong Kong have mounted, after a job-seeking domestic worker infected with Covid-19 was found to have shared accommodation with 45 other helpers at three locations recently, and shared a bathroom with five other people. Another helper, who has tested preliminarily positive, also recently stayed at a place with four to six other migrant workers. The episodes have highlighted the often overcrowded living conditions at boarding houses run by recruitment…