Hong Kong will test its entire population of some seven million people for COVID-19 next month as the city battles its worst outbreak. Local authorities made the announcement Tuesday and predicted it will take seven days to carry out the mass screening. Professor Lau Yu-lung, who chairs the government’s scientific committee on vaccine-preventable diseases, said that the mass testing could identify up to 300,000 new COVID infections, reported the South China Morning Post. This comes as Hong Kong’s Centre for Health Protection announced on the same day that there were 6,211 new cases of COVID-19, of which three were imported cases. There were also 32 deaths within 24 hours of the same date as the announcement, including three children under the age of 5. On Monday there were 8,013 local cases were reported. Chuang Shuk-kwan, director of the Infectious Diseases Division of the Centre for Health Protection in Hong Kong, …