By Tony Cheung
Beijing’s highest-ranking official overseeing Hong Kong affairs has called on local authorities to take “strong and decisive measures” to reduce the death rate and prioritise care for the elderly.Vice-Premier Han Zheng, who heads the Communist Party’s leading group on Hong Kong and Macau, also revealed on Monday that Beijing had approved a plan to resume cross-border travel between the city and mainland China from January 9, but it was derailed by the growing number of cases locally.The state…
