Hong Kong Reverses Ban on Dining in Restaurants After Public Outcry

HONG KONG—Officials reversed an all-day ban on eating in eating places after widespread criticism, exposing the minefield of imposing measures to include the coronavirus whereas sustaining every day life.

Before Thursday’s U-turn, pictures had circulated broadly on-line and in native media displaying staff throughout town consuming in squalid circumstances. They took shelter from scorching warmth and a sudden heavy rainstorm on their lunch breaks in bus stations and native parks, and on sidewalks and stairwells.

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