A neighborhood in Hong Kong’s Kowloon Peninsula, a busy urban area, reopened the early morning of Jan. 25 after nearly 48 hours in lockdown over the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus. Local authorities said the lockdown and mandatory testing measures were aimed at achieving the goal of zero CCO virus cases in the Jordan neighborhood of Yau Tsim Mong District, which had seen a spike in positive cases. From Jan. 1 to 20, 162 confirmed cases were found in 56 buildings in the neighborhood, according to a Jan. 23 Hong Kong government announcement. Community leaders and residents criticized the lockdown process as copying the mainland approach in a “political task” to please Beijing. They added it was “a waste of resources.” Authorities evoked the Compulsory Testing for Certain Persons Regulation (Cap 599J) for the lockdown. The city’s chief executive Carrie Lam said at a press briefing on Jan. 23, “The government will use this restriction with …