For kitchen-less Hong Kongers who don't cook, a new ban on restaurant dining is proving to be a bitter pill
Hundreds of thousands of Hong Kongers live in subdivided tiny apartments, shared by multiple families and which often do not have kitchen facilities or even if they do, are too cramped to be used often.
For the seven-day duration of the ban, people without a kitchen will have to make do with takeout or food purchased at supermarkets. The former British colony has seen a spike in locally transmitted coronavirus cases over the past three weeks, with 145 cases reported on Monday, a daily record and the sixth consecutive day of triple digit infection figures. Since late January, more than 2,700 people have been infected in Hong Kong, 20 of whom have died.
Simon Wong, president of the Hong Kong Federation of Restaurants, said the sector would lose HK$5 billion in revenue in July if the government were to shut down dine-in services for the month.
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