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Hong Kong’s Bananas-Only Rule Shows Struggle to Exit Covid Curbs
- City retains a web of rules despite lifting major restrictions
- Hong Kong is still fighting the virus while also opening up
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As Hong Kong lifts most pandemic curbs, officials are maintaining a web of confusing rules.
Take trail running. The government just removed a ban on race organizers providing food to competitors. Yet the easing came with a strict provision at a race last weekend: Only bananas could be served and runners had to eat them on their own, in silence, away from checkpoints. Participants also needed to put on a mask two minutes after crossing the finish line.