Losing its lustre
A lone assistant awaits customers at a jewellery shop in Mong Kok as tighter rules in the face of a growing local outbreak of Omicron cases keep many shoppers away from the streets.
Retail sales had been slowly climbing out of a two-year, Covid-driven rut, but border closures as authorities push for a zero-Covid strategy have meant that traditional big-spending tourist shoppers remain largely absent.