ST: The Big Story, 8 Mar - Hong Kong's Covid-19 death rate now world's highest

Your Way Home with Hongbin Jeong · Mar 8, 2022 · 6m

Hong Kong's Covid-19 death rate is now the highest in the world. This comes after fatalities among the city's under-vaccinated elderly surged and concerns mount that there may be more to come as infections spread through care facilities. The financial hub's seven-day rolling average rose to 27 deaths per one million people as at Sunday, according to Bloomberg calculations based on Johns Hopkins University data. In The Straits Times’ The Big Story, Multimedia journalist Hairianto Dirman spoke to ST’s Hong Kong correspondent Claire Huang to find out more about the Covid-19 situation…