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Reuters
Reuters
Health
James Pomfret

MYSTERIOUS: Hong kong working class district reels as covid runs rampant - You Need To See This

Medical worker Trevor Chung, 29, attends to patients, including 98-year-old Lam Foon, outside the accident and emergency ward of in Sham Shui Po district, following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Hong Kong, China, February 17, 2022. Picture taken February 17, 2022. REUTERS/James Pomfret

Lam Foon, 98, sits propped up and swaddled in soggy woollen blankets in a hospital bed just outside the entrance to Hong Kong's Caritas Medical Centre, waiting for tests to confirm her preliminary positive result for COVID-19.

"I don't feel so good," she told Reuters through a surgical mask, next to a similarly wrapped patient wearing a mask and face shield.

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