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		</div><p>Hong Kong expanded a partial lockdown and tightened pandemic restrictions after more than 200 cases of Covid-19 were discovered at a public housing estate.</p>
<p>Hong Kong has already suspended many overseas flights and requires arrivals be quarantined, similar to mainland China’s “zero-tolerance” approach to the virus that has placed millions under lockdowns and mandates mask wearing, rigorous case tracing and mass testing.</p>
<p>Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said a second residential block at the Kwai Chung housing complex would be locked down for five days.</p>
<p>The block where the virus was first discovered is already under lockdown, which will now be extended from five to seven days.</p>
<p>The measures aimed to “play safe protecting the residents as well as preventing the spread of the virus”, Ms Lam told reporters.</p>
<p>Schools have been closed and restaurants cannot offer in-house dining after 6pm in a return to previous measures to contain surges in cases.</p>
<p>Compulsory testing has been ordered on people who reside in or visited buildings where the virus was detected.</p>
<p>The outbreak has also prompted the city of Shenzhen just across the border in mainland China to tighten rules on people arriving from Hong Kong.</p>
<p>Starting from Wednesday, Hong Kong travellers will need to show a negative Covid-19 test result obtained over the previous 24 hours, undergo 14 days of quarantine at a government-designated location and seven further days of isolation at home.</p>
<p>Lam also criticized one of her senior Cabinet members, Home Affairs Secretary Casper Tsui, who was among several government officials suspended from duty and ordered into quarantine after they attended a birthday party where two guests later tested positive for coronavirus.</p>
<p>“The Secretary for Home Affairs is an official whom we will have to look into very deeply because of various aspects,” Ms Lam said.</p>
<p>As with mainland China, Hong Kong’s tough anti-pandemic rules have helped keep case numbers relatively low, but are also taking a toll on the economy and public patience.</p>
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An international centre of finance and trade, the city has a prominent expatriate population, some of whom are beginning to chafe at the travel controls and other restrictions.</p>
<p>A survey released this month by the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong showed more than 40% of members surveyed were more likely to leave because of the restrictions.</p>
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