Hong Kong leader defends plan to use health code app to restrict movements
Lee, who spoke at a regular news conference Tuesday, said that the health code plan is part of the city's objective to adopt “precise strategies to minimize the scope of restrictions.”
The city's health code measures are being considered amid an increase of COVID-19 infections after the city battled its fifth and worst outbreak that spiked its cumulative numbers to over a million infections and over 9,000 dead. Lee said that the health code system is a way of “early identification” of possible infections while affecting the least number of people.
“This is a massive privacy issue, it's like placing a target on the back of people who receive red or yellow codes,” said Wong Wing-tsang, 33-year-old Hong Kong resident. “Here, there is still the attitude where people treat those with COVID-19 as outcasts.”
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