Hong Kong reverses virus ban on restaurant dining

Hong Kong (AFP) July 30, 2020

Hong Kong's government on Thursday reversed a day-old ban on restaurants serving dine-in customers - introduced to control the spread of coronavirus - following widespread public anger. All restaurants in the city of 7.5 million were ordered Wednesday to only serve takeaways as part of a raft of ramped-up social distancing measures aimed at combating a fresh wave of virus cases. But so