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At mass Covid-19 testing site in Hong Kong, concerns raised over inadequate protective gear and residents with sore throat or cough taking part

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Doctors have expressed concern over staff working in at least one collection centre for Hong Kong’s mass Covid-19 testing effort receiving “non-medical use” gowns and residents being admitted who are coughing or report a sore throat, both symptoms of the disease.A frontline doctor who had taken part in the programme told the Post on Friday that health workers had been given gowns with a label saying “non-medical use” and complained they offered little protection.“It really puts the staff who…

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