Carrie Lam plans to expand COVID-19 testing to 7,000 a day

Chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), Carrie Lam, said on Tuesday that she planned to expand the number of COVID-19 tests in the region from 4,500 to 7,000 a day.

Lam will go to Beijing on May 21 to attend the opening ceremony of this year's annual session of China's top legislature, National People's Congress (NPC), and return to Hong Kong on May 22.