Hong Kong health workers, activists urge boycott of mass COVID-19 testing

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Hong Kong health workers, activists urge boycott of mass COVID-19 testing
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A Hong Kong pro-democracy union of healthcare workers and several activists, including Joshua Wong, called on Sunday for a boycott of the ...

The Hospital Authority Employees Alliance, formed during last year's protests with 20,000 members, said universal testing was not an efficient use of resources and urged focused tests instead."It is clear to see that the government has one and only one goal ... to use the pandemic to achieve their own political aims," its leader Winnie Yu told a joint news conference with activists.

Wong said a full closure of the border would be a better measure than the government plan, adding,"It's like having a pregnancy test without having birth control."

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