Fighting COVID-19 in Hong Kong: The effects of community and social mobilization

Response to the COVID-19: Understanding implications of government lockdown policies

“…Further, in this modeling exercise, we have not accounted for the limitation in the resources such as the number of hospital beds, doctors, testing capabilities, and financial resources available to the government (owing to lack of data availability). Effects of civic participation and voluntary engagement of citizens and businesses community could have been considered as in the case of South Korea ( Lee et al, 2020 ), Hong Kong ( Wan et al, 2020 ), and China ( Miao et al, 2020 ). The inclusion of all these inputs in modeling can lead to more reliable predictions.…”

“…Alvarez, Argente, and Lippi, (2020) present an optimal lockdown policy in terms of the duration and strictness of lockdown measures with the objectives of minimizing the number of fatalities and lockdown costs. South Korea and Hong Kong have successfully limited the number of confirmed cases by leveraging civil society for pandemic management ( Lee, Heo, and Seo, (2020) ; Wan, Ho, Wong, and Chiu, (2020) ). Further, South Korea flattened the curve by combining testing, early isolation, and free treatment of positive cases combined with digital technologies without resorting to ‘lockdown'.…”

Multistakeholder Participation in Disaster Management—The Case of the COVID-19 Pandemic

“…International travel restrictions [105,106] Improving health facilities [107] Strict quarantine measures [108][109][110] Tracking and testing [47,108,[111][112][113] Built new hospitals for the treatment COVID-19 [110] Building up advisory systems and Creating public awareness [47,114] Stoppage of Non-essential businesses [108,112] Strengthening Government services [115,116] Restriction on mass gathering [108,112,116] School and university closure [108,109,112,116] Curfew [109,112,117] Health data management/ epidemiological data base [47,108,114] State of emergency [108] Internal travel restriction [112] Lockdown policy [111,112,[117][118][119] Decentralised communication [47] community to be proactive, sharing of responsibility [120,121] Stakeholders and clinical manifestation of COVID-19 [45,122] While others made the community be proactive, coordinated the works with clear role clarity, coordinated different polic...…”

High Level of (Passive) Compliance in a Low-Trust Society: Hong Kong Citizens’ Response Towards the COVID-19 Lockdown

“…They transformed their communal network formed during the anti-ELAB protests into a civilian self-help network concentrated on sharing information related to COVID-19 in social media, distributing masks and sanitizers in the community, and even deterring potential law violators as amplified by the Telegram doxing Channel. The pioneering research of Wan et al (2020) also confirms that pro-democratic councillors were quick in their response in terms of mask distribution, compared with many existing communal networks not operated by them. Similarly, and interestingly, those who do not associate themselves with the pro-democratic camp also do not shy away from expressing their disapproval of the government in handling the pandemic.…”

“…First, only 36.3% of the confirmed COVID-19 cases from January to June (438 out of 1205) were local cases. Second, various studies ( Cowling et al , 2020 ; Mingpao, 2020 ; Wan et al , 2020 ) show that Hong Kong citizens have reduced their traffic movement in the past few months. Protest activities have also been reduced, as evidenced by the trend shown in Figure 1 .…”