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Workers in protective suits arriving at the locked-down part of the Sai Ying Pun area in March. Since Jan 23, the government has carried out 47 such "ambush lockdowns" islandwide, involving 200 buildings and 40,000 residents. In all, 22 Covid-19 cases were detected.
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Six months after Hong Kong's leader announced a target of zero Covid-19 infections, the city on Thursday finally hit the seemingly ambitious goal even as the pandemic flares up in other places like Singapore and Taiwan.
Hong Kong has so far managed to stave off a fourth wave of the pandemic - what the Food and Health Bureau said was mainly caused by importation of cases - and bring local outbreaks under control.
