Patients are lying on the sidewalk, and the city’s management is hunting for 10,000 hotel rooms. Eruptions put Hong Kong in a pinch.

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Inside a Hong Kong hospital, staff are struggling to care for all patients. Outside are hospital beds with patients in a row.

Hong Kong is in the midst of its biggest outbreak since the pandemic began. In the last week, the number of infections in the city with approximately 7.5 million people has reached a record high of 2,000 new infections every day.