Covid-19’s resurgence in Hong Kong holds a lesson: Defeating it demands persistence

As a mysterious virus raced through Wuhan, China, 570 miles to the north, residents in Hong Kong acted on instinct. They swaddled their faces in paper-thin masks and slathered on sanitizer, even on strangers, and obediently sheltered indoors, some doing so before their government closed schools and universities and offices sent workers home. The new coronavirus seemed to be contained by early March, with case numbers nearly flat and just four deaths, this despite a shared border with mainland China and infections racing through South Korea, Japan, and Europe.

Epidemiologists and journalists lauded the Chinese territory for controlling the spread, and Hong Kongers emerged from their tiny apartments to resume life. They headed back to work and the gym, even dined out for noodles and dim sum, as they welcomed home residents and students who had been stuck overseas.

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