Beijing Dispatches Top Disease Control Official to Take On Covid in Hong Kong

Beijing has dispatched a top disease control official to Shenzhen to help neighboring Hong Kong contain its fast-growing local Covid-19 outbreak, which continues to worsen with thousands of new cases recorded daily.

Wang Hesheng, deputy director of the National Health Commission, arrived in the southern city on Wednesday to coordinate disease control work. The health veteran is also the head of the newly established National Administration of Disease Prevention and Control.