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Hong Kong’s Omicron crisis: testing, health systems, supply chains on the brink

Inside China

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Vivian Lynn, a Vivian in Melbourne

Vivian lynn is an executive associating at the faculty of medicine at the university of hong kong. She landed in melbourne and had a return flight all lined up with her booking for a quarantine hotel back here in hongkong. 24 hours after she lands, her return flight is cancelled. Her son got a message to say he needed to go for pc r testing because he had been at a place where there were positive cases. And just before christmas, the testing facilities in both melbourne and sydney were under huge strain as thousands upon thousands of people did what they were told - get a pica test. Vivien found herself and her family going

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