Coronavirus: daily cases fall below 400 as Hong Kong sticks with plan to further ease social-distancing rules in second half of May

Hong Kong will stick to its plan to further relax social-distancing measures in the second half of May, the city’s leader has said, ruling out an earlier reopening even as the daily number of cases fell below 400 for the first time in nearly three months. But Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor also shrugged off worries Hong Kong could return to a more hermetic lifestyle again, saying a drastic resurgence of infections was unlikely due to the level of immunity the city had already attained.