Besides closing the border with the mainland, hospital workers are also demanding a plan to ensure adequate supplies of face-masks, enough isolation wards and nurses to care for quarantined patients, and a gov’t promise not to seek revenge on employees for organising the strike. pic.twitter.com/33gl2tr0N5

— Ryan Ho Kilpatrick 何松濤 (@rhokilpatrick) February 1, 2020

Members of the recently formed Hospital Authority employees’ union have voted to go on strike Monday over the government’s lack of action to curb the spread of #CoronaVirus. The motion passed by 3,123 versus 10.

The vote was broadcast live at street stations throughout the city. pic.twitter.com/Hu09z3mg1g

— Ryan Ho Kilpatrick 何松濤 (@rhokilpatrick) February 1, 2020