Life Inside Hong Kong's Lockdown

HONG KONG, CHINA - JANUARY 24: A man wearing a bathing gown looks down from rooftop of a residential building in a locked-down part of the Jordon district on January 24, 2021 in Hong Kong, China. Hong Kong announced a sudden lockdown of a city block on Friday, with short notice given to residents and businesses. The group of nearly 200 buildings was located in Yau Tsim Mong, a densely-packed neighbourhood that squeezes in more than 10,000 people in the space of a square kilometre. The area has been the epicentre of a spiralling Covid-19 outbreak, and is home to many of the city's ethnic minorities. People live in cramped, often illegally subdivided flats with shared sanitation facilities, unable to access housing in the rest of a metropolis because of sky high rents. Far from the gleaming skyscrapers of Victoria Harbour, residents inside the lockdown zone found themselves locked into tiny spaces - sometimes entire families squeezed into one room of 100 square feet. Residents took to windows and rooftops to see through a harrowing weekend locked in. (Photo by Anthony Kwan/Getty Images)