For people living in one of the Hong Kong's notorious 'cubicle flats' -- subdivided apartments that make up some of the most densely packed buildings in the world -- distancing is a pipe dream.
In 2016 authorities estimated some 200,000 people lived in cubicles that were 50-square feet or less. HONG KONG, CHINA -- Squashed inside the 50-square-foot living space she shares with her son, Wong Mei-ying knows social-distancing during the coronavirus pandemic is all but impossible.
"We have to line up to cook our meals, queue for shower. Around dinner time, the kitchen will be so crowded and every one of us wears a mask," she added. But it suffers from pervasive inequality, an acute housing shortage and eye-watering rents that successive governments have failed to solve.
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