CGTN published this video item, entitled “Hong Kong tightens restrictions to curb spread of virus” – below is their description.
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Hong Kong reported over 50 new coronavirus cases on Monday, including 43 local infections. The city has tightened restrictions to curb the spread of the coronavirus. The government says rules now in place will be extended, including in the city’s schools. Carrie Lam, chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), says the measures in place have had some effect, but it’s still a long road towards a full resumption of normal life.
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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”.