China's President Xi Jinping has told Hong Kong's government to stabilise and control a deepening Covid-19 outbreak in the global financial hub as soon as possible, pro-Beijing media reported.
The directive increases pressure on authorities scrambling to keep pace with a deluge of new infections in the financial hub.
Xi instructed Chinese Vice Premier Han Zheng to relay to Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam his “concern about the pandemic situation” and his care for local residents, according to front page stories in newpapers Wen Wei Po and Ta Kung Pao.
