“Hong Kong and Its Education Under the Threat of Covid-19”, by IP Kin-yuen.

This is not the first time that Hong Kong faces a coronavirus attack. The bitter experience of SARS in 2003 which cost 299 lives (including eight medical staff) was horrible and unforgettable. That was the reason why HK citizens responded so quickly to the outbreak of a similar coronavirus and the emergence of the first confirmed case in late January 2020. We were ready to follow the instructions from medical experts to adopt different sanitation habits including washing hands frequently and wearing face masks. We accepted the concept of “confinement” and the attempts to trace the origin of every confirmed case in order to avoid the spread of the virus. We understood very well the importance of quarantine, self-isolation and social distancing. This kind of awareness was quite different from many other places where this threat was totally new. We knew this was very different from the typical flu.

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