Hong Kong should impose a strict, city-wide lockdown for nine days to rein in its snowballing COVID-19 outbreak rather than prolong social-distancing restrictions that are strangling business, lawmaker Michael Tien said.
All non-essential businesses would be shuttered and residents tested three times over the lockdown period, Tien, a member of the city’s Legislative Council and a Hong Kong deputy to China’s National People’s Congress, said in an interview with Bloomberg Television on Wednesday.
“I’d rather have a quick fix than long-term pain,” he said. “It is time we bite the bullet and take a quick one.”
