Last Mile

Drums grow louder for a new round of financial support for businesses and employees in light of the latest local Covid-19 cases in late September while the authorities are also urged to think of anti-epidemic measures that cause less disruptions to normal economic activities when there are new cases in the future.

Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng called on local businesses in June last year to be persistent and “walk the last mile” of the city’s efforts to overcome the coronavirus outbreak. Two months later, upon the resumption of the visa issuance for Mainland Chinese to visit the city, a signal for the local tourism-and-gaming-reliant economy to bottom out, the top official noted at the time, “The last mile has just begun.”

This last mile, however, seems to last forever in the perspective of local businesses and the general public, as the Covid-19 pandemic hangs on and continues to batter the territory’s economic recovery.

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