‘Painful lessons’ of Sars helped Hong Kong’s elderly care homes avoid losing patients to Covid-19

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Hong Kong has managed to avoid seeing any deaths from Covid-19 in its elderly care homes, even though the city is just across the border from the Chinese mainland and the original epicentre of the pandemic. Elaine Ly of the South China Morning Post asks the head of social care policy at Hong Kong University, Professor Terry Lum, how the city protected its care homes, despite such facilities being hardest hit in other parts of the world.

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