South China Morning Post published this video item, entitled “15,650 runners take part in first Hong Kong Marathon since Covid-19 pandemic” – below is their description.
15,650 runners took part in the Hong Kong Marathon on October 24, 2021, with measures in place to prevent the spread of Covid-19. The number of participants allowed to take part in the three races – the full marathon, half marathon and 10km race – was reduced from 74,000 to 18,500 as part of pandemic precautions. All runners also had to be fully vaccinated two weeks before the event.
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In This Story: Hong Kong
Hong Kong, officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (HKSAR), is a metropolitan area and special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta of the South China Sea. With over 7.5 million residents of various nationalities in a 1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated places in the world.
Hong Kong became a colony of the British Empire after the Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island at the end of the First Opium War in 1842. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 after the Second Opium War and was further extended when Britain obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898. The whole territory was transferred to China in 1997. As a special administrative region, Hong Kong maintains separate governing and economic systems from that of mainland China under the principle of “one country, two systems”.