'Not wearing masks in Hong Kong is like not wearing pants.' City residents are now antivirus enforcers, from refusing service to social shaming.
HONG KONG—With the U.S. government recommending Americans wear facial coverings to curb the new coronavirus, this mask-obsessed city directly in the path of the pandemic’s first wave is an example of a community that started early—and remains convinced that masks helped slow the contagion.
Hong Kong should have been slammed by Covid-19. The city of 7.5 million is among the world’s most densely populated and has the world’s busiest overland border crossings with mainland China. Hong Kong was seeded in January with the new...
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