Abstract
Hong Kong has reported its first death related to the novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV, only the second fatality reported outside mainland China, as healthcare workers in the city started unprecedented industrial action to put pressure on the government to close the border and avert an escalation in the number of infections. The 39 year old man, who had an underlying health condition, had travelled to Wuhan on 21 January. In late January, after his return to Hong Kong, he developed fever and myalgia. The Hong Kong Hospital Authority announced that he had died on 3 February. The news coincided with the second day of industrial action by members of the Hospital Authority Employees’ Alliance, a new labour union representing around 9000 of the 67 000 staff employed by the Hospital Authority, the statutory body that manages all of Hong Kong’s government hospitals. After a strike by 2700 non-essential staff on 2 February, the union pledged to escalate the strike if the government did not …
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Government (linguistics)Mainland ChinaChinaIndustrial actionMedicineStatutory lawAlliancePolitical scienceBusinessPublic administrationEconomic growthLaw
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J. Parry
(2020).
China coronavirus: Hong Kong health staff strike to demand border closure as city records first death.
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https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m454
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