By Felix Tam and Clare Jim HONG KONG, Jan 31 (Reuters) - Hong Kong chief Carrie Lam rejecte
By Felix Tam and Clare Jim
HONG KONG, Jan 31 (Reuters) – Hong Kong chief Carrie Lam
rejected calls from a medical union on Friday to shut the
border with mainland China to include the unfold of the brand new
coronavirus, and urged well being workers to not undergo with a
threatened strike.
The just lately fashioned Hospital Authority Workers Alliance
mentioned earlier on Friday 6,500 of its members would go on strike
if the frontier stayed open, a day after the World Well being
Group (WHO) declared the virus a world emergency.
The WHO advisable all international locations attempt to stop or scale back
cross-border unfold of illness, which originated within the central
Chinese language metropolis of Wuhan. But it surely mentioned measures ought to keep away from
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“I’m afraid (closing the border) contradicts the WHO
suggestion … which asks governments to not take any measures
which will gasoline discrimination,” Lam instructed a information convention.
She introduced a raft of latest measures towards the illness and
mentioned any industrial motion by medical workers would solely make the
state of affairs worse.
“On the finish of the day those that will endure shall be our
Hong Kong residents and the general public well being system,” she mentioned.
Authorities have introduced 12 confirmed infections in Hong
Kong however no deaths. The…