Wuhan virus compounds HK economic woes
Professor Gabriel Leung of Hong Kong Public Health Medicine at a press conference about the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak in Hong Kong. The city continues to reel from the global trade war, political unrest and now a SARS-like virus. – EPA pic, January 22, 2020.
THE emergence of a SARS-like virus in China is the last thing Hong Kong’s struggling economy needs, analysts say, as the city reels from the twin storms of the global trade war and months of political unrest. The semi-autonomous financial hub is currently on high alert for any appearance of the new coronavirus, which first surfaced in the Chinese city of Wuhan and has since spread to the United States and around Asia.
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