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HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong accountant May Ng says her family made huge sacrifices last month to comply with the city’s COVID-19 policies, but now thinks these were in vain as she does not expect the latest outbreak to be contained. The global financial hub follows mainland China in deploying a “dynamic zero-COVID” strategy aimed at ending any outbreaks as soon as possible after they occur, but the highly-transmissible Omicron variant has proven hard to keep under control. Despite extensive contact tracing and draconian isolation policies, daily infections have risen 60-fold since Feb. 1 t…