A health worker waits for residents to be screened for COVID-19 at a makeshift testing station outside a building placed under lockdown at the Kwai…

Edward Leung arrives at the High Court before facing rioting charges in Hong Kong on Jan. 18, 2018. (Anthony Wallace/AFP via Getty Images)

Hong Kong health officials enter a pet shop to cull pets and disinfect the store, in Causeway Bay, on Jan. 18, 2022. (Sung Pilung/The Epoch…

A women walks past a flight information board at Hong Kong International Airport, on Aug. 11, 2021. (Isaac Lawrence/AFP via Getty Images)

Leaflets in support of Tong Ying-kit, the first person charged under the national security law, are placed at a shopping mall near the High Court,…

Hong Kong's Chief Executive Carrie Lam holds a press conference, announcing strict new anti-coronavirus controls in Hong Kong on Jan. 5, 2022. (Daniel Suen/AFP via…

A Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) soldier guards the entrance to the PLA Hong Kong Garrison headquarters in the Central Business District in Hong Kong,…

People dine at tables with partition boards inside a restaurant amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Hong Kong, on Jan. 5, 2022. (Tyrone Siu/Reuters)

People walk on a street in Hong Kong, on Nov. 29, 2021. (Lam Yik/Reuters)

A passenger waves from the Spectrum of the Seas cruise ship docked at Kai Tak cruise terminal in Hong Kong on Jan. 5, 2022. (Vincent…