Hong Kong opened a field hospital with a capacity of 500 beds for nCoV infections, as the city faced a new Covid-19 wave.

The field hospital is located at the AsiaWorld-Expo, near Hong Kong airport, open today and will host Covid-19 patients aged 18-60.

"Our goal is to separate patients from the community and provide appropriate treatment, arrange hospitalization for them," said Dr. Larry Lee, of Hong Kong Hospital Administration.

Dr Lee added that about 20-30 patients will be hospitalized on the first day.

China's Special Administrative Region has been receiving the new Covid-19 wave since July, with more than 2,000 cases detected, accounting for 60% of the total number of cases since the outbreak in the city last January.

The field hospital was inaugurated the day after Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced the postponement of elections for the Hong Kong Legislative Assembly in September for a year.

Lam apologized this morning for the effects of a new government-imposed ban, which requires a full-day shutdown of restaurant and restaurant services in the city.

"I admit we are not in a good balance of public health, business resilience and public needs," Lam said in a Hong Kong radio show.

Beijing said it proposed sending testers from the mainland to Hong Kong to conduct a "large-scale nucleic acid test".