[SCMP] has Hong Kong learned the hard lessons of Sars or is it repeating the same mistakes?

25/02/2020

Professor Yuen Kwok-yung, a top infectious disease expert from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) who is currently advising the government, said the city’s measures had been “three steps ahead” at the beginning, but lagged behind after the first cases were confirmed.
Experts, including HKU’s top microbiologist Dr Ho Pak-leung, made repeated calls to the government to ban visitors coming from mainland China, to prevent more people who might be infected from entering the city. Thousands of health care workers staged an unprecedented strike to urge authorities to do so.
Communication, response time, and facilities all under the spotlight as COVID-19 epidemic takes hold.

Elizabeth Cheung and Gary Cheung, 25 Feb, 2020