Two of Hong Kong's largest retail chains have started rationing some food and drug items to curb panic buying that has plagued the city over the past week amid fears of a citywide lockdown as Covid-19 cases soar.

Supermarket chain ParknShop announced limits of five items per customer on staples such as rice, canned food and toilet paper while pharmacy Watsons put the same limits on medication for pain, fever and colds.

Both ParknShop and Watsons are units of the Hong Kong listed conglomerate CK Hutchison. On Wednesday, ParknShop announced shorter opening hours, with some of its 200 branches shutting at 3pm local time - by which time many shops across the Asian financial hub have been stripped of fresh and frozen meat and vegetables in recent days.

Hong Kong officials have repeatedly urged people against panic buying this week, saying supplies were adequate. Amid public complaints of confused official messaging, Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam has said her government had no plan for a "complete lockdown" while it plans compulsory testing of the city's 7.4 million residents.

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Meteorologist calls kids on-air to warn of tornado nearing their home

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Nearly 5 million infected in U.K. as COVID-19 hits record levels

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Official: 4 men, 2 women died in I-81 crash of 80 vehicles

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Daniel Craig Tests Positive for COVID-19, Performances of Broadway's 'Macbeth' Are Canceled

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Biden commissions USS Delaware, a nuclear attack submarine

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Strictly Come Dancing's Shirley Ballas saving people's lives after health scare

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Philadelphia police officer's vehicle hit on Schuylkill Expressway, authorities say

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Bill Maher Dragged After Saying Jada Pinkett Smith Is ‘Lucky’ Her Only Health Concern Is Alopecia

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COVID-19 resurgence expected during spring: Tam

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German man got Covid-19 vaccine 87 times before getting arrested; here's how

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'I grabbed him out of the toilet': Mother gives birth in hotel bathroom

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Scotland Covid breakdown as a record 4.9 million people have coronavirus across the UK

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Minister does not believe State is exposed legally over Covid infections

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Island wide curfew imposed

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Miley Cyrus tests positive for COVID-19, but says “it was definitely worth it”

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Bruce Willis' wife thanks fans amid his health issues as actor 'sells off property empire'

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Mild Covid cases can cause significant brain damage, top doctors warn

coronavirus at some point in the past two years. In most cases they’ve suffered little more than the equivalent of a nasty bout of flu.But a chilling new study suggests that even a mild case of Covid-19 could cause lasting brain damage.Autopsies of people who have died from Covid have identified irregularities in their brain tissue, but scientists at the Tulane National Primate Research Centre have conducted a series of tests on monkeys known to respond to Covid in a similar way to humans.The research, published in scientific journal Nature Communications, looked at the brain tissue of four rhesus macaques and four African green monkeys deliberately infected with the virus.

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