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HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam announced a series of measures for elderly residents on Wednesday as a wave of COVID-19 infections sweep through care homes, with deaths rising rapidly among the city’s elderly, mostly unvaccinated. The government would boost treatment and medical resources and set up more isolation and temporary care facilities for elderly coronavirus patients, Lam said at a press briefing. His comments come after a senior Chinese official said Hong Kong must prioritize reducing infections, serious illnesses and deaths. Infections in the global financial hub have reached record highs of more than 500,000 cases...
