The images captured by different graphic reports show people shivering in the streets, exhausted doctors and relatives praying for their dead.
Caritas Medical Center hospital in Sham Shui Po district began setting up isolation tents outside on Monday, initially with one patient per tent.
However, this was not enough as by Wednesday night entire families were crammed into the facility while another 50 patients languished in the February cold on stretchers outside the hospital.
“Some of my colleagues say we are in war mode,” said David Chan, an emergency nurse at Caritas, who also chairs the Hong Kong Hospital Authority Employees Alliance.
On Wednesday, the Government reported that a record number of 4,285 confirmed infections was registered, with another 7,000 preliminarily positive in this city of 7.5 million.
Now, experts began to warn that by March it could reach 28,000 daily infections.
Before the current surge, Hong Kong had detected just over 12,000 cases since the start of the pandemic.
The country has an abundance of vaccines, many of which were sent by China, but despite this only 43% of people aged 70 to 79 years and 26% of those over 80 years were immunized.
Source: Ambito
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