Isn't it so obvious that this is now politically motivated? From 8 to 50, what's the difference? It's either full measures or 0, unless the virus can tell which groups to infect or not.
Groups of 50 is literally "everything allowed, except just all demonstrations banned".
Just thought about #80 and #81. It must be 50 because that's the largest amount of pro-Beijing supporters that the United Front can muster at once?
The logic behind 50 must be this -- the virus will be wanting to see a very large gathering exceeding 50 so that it can choose its next victims freely -- fat? Tall? Skinny? Black?White? Optimistic? Pessimistic? Idiotic? Genius? and so on. But with a mere " supply" of fifty, it will prolly get disappointed and flee.
5th fatality and more than twenty suspected imported cases from India/Pakistan. I expect the border restrictions/quarantine will not be lifted this year for many countries.
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/...-19-death-hong