Wuhan virus fears spark mask queues, empty shelves in HK
Long queues outside of pharmacies and panic buying have become commonplace in Hong Kong as the crowded metropolis panics over the spread of China’s new coronavirus. – AFP pic, January 30, 2020.
LONG queues form at pharmacies and crowds of panic-buyers strip supermarket shelves in Hong Kong as fears spread through the crowded metropolis over China’s new coronavirus epidemic. As a city that lost nearly 300 people to the SARS virus in 2003, Hong Kongers are taking few chances over the latest disease outbreak that began in central China and has since spread.
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