Hong Kong Covid Deaths Projected to Reach 1,000 By Mid-June – BNN Bloomberg

(Bloomberg) — Hong Kong's current social distancing rules aren't enough to bring the city's record-setting Covid wave under control, and nearly 1,000 residents may die by mid-June if there aren't changes, according to researchers from the University of Hong Kong. Mitigation measures are needed to cut transmissions by 85% — a level akin to what Shanghai achieved during its city-wide lockdown in early 2020 — to get through the outbreak while minimizing deaths, said Gabriel Leung, dean of medicine, and Joseph Wu, who specializes in mathematical and statistical disease modelling at the university. The ultimate number of deaths depends on…