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Hong Kong’s fresh-grad nurses feel underprepared as clinical training cut short amid Covid-19


As soon as Lee arrived home, he rushed to the bathroom to wash his hands and dispose of the face mask he was wearing. He then scrubbed his hands with soap again, before jumping into a hot shower to clean himself thoroughly.

This has been Lee’s routine in the past three months since Hong Kong was gripped by the coronavirus outbreak in late January. The virus, which has infected more than 1,030 people in Hong Kong and over three million others worldwide, suddenly turned his part-time job in a Hong Kong hospital into a risky line of work.

Lee’s nursing uniform with the University of Hong Kong logo. Photo: Lee.

The 23-year-old, who did not wish to reveal his full name, is a final year nursing student at the University of Hong Kong (HKU). He worked at the Queen Mary Hospital as a Temporary Undergraduate Nursing Student (TUNS).



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