Hong Kong Asks Property Tycoons to Help House Covid Patients

(Bloomberg) — Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam asked major property developers to find 10,000 hotel rooms for isolating people who test positive for Covid-19 as the city’s biggest outbreak yet challenges its zero-tolerance approach to the virus.

On a video call Wednesday, Lam urged hotel owners to provide “much needed accommodation” to isolate positive patients with mild or no Covid symptoms, according to a government statement. Officials had already secured some 4,400 rooms before the meeting, of which 1,700 will be available before the end of this week and the rest by the end of next week, according to the press release.