A woman wearing PPE promotes Covid-19 testing kits in the Mongkok area of Hong Kong on March 19, 2022. — AFP pic
HONG KONG, March 19 — Hong Kong reported 16,597 new cases of Covid-19 today, down from more than 20,000 a day earlier, as the city grapples to contain an outbreak of Covid-19 that has swept through elderly care homes and paralysed many parts of the city. — Reuters