IS ? COVID-19 situation is getting out of conrtol?

The deadly coronavirus is spreading out of management in city with a record a hundred new cases confirmed, the finance hub's leader same Sunday as she tightened social distancing measures.

The finance hub was one among the primary places to be smitten by the virus once it emerged from central China.

But the town had spectacular success in endeavor the unwellness, near ending native transmissions by late June.

However, within the last period of time, infections have spiked another time and doctors concern the new eruption is currently spreading unobserved within the densely packed territory of seven.5 million individuals.

On Sunday chief govt Carrie Lam same quite five hundred infections had been confirmed within the last time period alone, nearly a 3rd since the eruption began.

On Sunday 108 new infections were recorded by health authorities, a daily high for the finance hub, transportation the full to one,886 cases.

Lam declared new social distancing measures last week, shuttering several businesses together with bars, gyms and nightclubs, and ordering everybody to wear masks on conveyance.

Restaurants were ordered to solely supply takeout services within the evenings.

On Sunday Lam declared even a lot of rules, together with plans to form it mandatory to wear masks within any public indoor venue -- and a replacement order for

As hospital wards fill, officers also are scrambling to create an additional a pair of,000 isolation rooms on barren land close to the city's amusement park resort to observe and

treat people who take a look at positive, she added.

Hong Kong was already encumbered in recession once the pandemic hit due to the US-China trade war and months of political unrest last year.

The new partial imprisonment has combined the economic misery.

On Sunday, Lam required landlords to seem at lowering rents within the notoriously dear town wherever difference is rampant.

She same more social distancing measures would be extended if the daily infection rate failed to ease in coming back days.

However, she same she was keen to avoid ordering individuals to stay reception.

Authorities say testing are ramped up, targeting risky populations like taxi drivers and edifice employees when clusters were found at intervals their ranks.

Some of the new infections have sweptwing through old care homes, a serious reason for concern given however deadly the coronavirus is to older individuals.

So far twelve individuals are died when acquiring the virus in city -- four within the last time period.

Lam same officers would try and strike a balance between protective health and keeping the economy partly afloat.