Hong Kong begins mass-testing for coronavirus after fresh outbreak

Swab sample is collected from a man at a makeshift testing site in the Queen Elizabeth Stadium in Hong Kong (AP)

Hong Kong has begun a voluntary mass-testing programme for coronavirus as part of a strategy to break the chain of transmission in the city’s third outbreak of the disease.

The virus-testing scheme has become a flash point of political debate in Hong Kong, with many distrustful over resources and staff being provided by the China’s central government and fears that residents’ DNA could be collected during the exercise.