Hong Kong medical staff strike for third day as locally transmitted virus cases rise
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Medical workers in Hong Kong began a third day of strike action on Wednesday, piling pressure on the city’s government to seal the border with mainland China as the number of locally transmitted cases of a new coronavirus increased.