HONG KONG_ Hong Kong Protesters Clean Up Amid Illness Fears

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Hong Kong Protesters Clean Up Amid Illness Fears

Cooler Weather, Illness Prompts Pro-Democracy Protesters to Tidy Rally Sites, Scrub Tents


A pro-democracy protester carries a trash bag in Hong Kong's financial central district Saturday, Nov. 1, 2014. Reuters

By Yvonne Lee
Nov. 1, 2014 7:51 a.m. ET


HONG KONG—Protesters used another quiet day to clean the three sites they’ve occupied in Hong Kong over the past five weeks.

Cooler weather and some illness among protesters encouraged students and volunteers to scrub down their tents and shelters.

Temperatures are expected to drop to as low as 21 degrees Celsius on Monday from about 27 degrees Celsius on Saturday, according to the Hong Kong Observatory.

Au Yiu Kat, a medical support team coordinator of Occupy Central with Love and Peace, one of three main groups of activists involved in the demonstrations, confirmed one student, who had visited the Admiralty site in September, got pneumonia two weeks ago.

“We see this is an individual case. Lots of students are likely to have flu because of lack of sleep and poor nutrition. A cleaning day can remind protesters to maintain the protest sites clean,” Dr. Au said.

Protesters in Admiralty, Mong Kok and Causeway Bay wiped their tents, sleeping bags, mats and floor with bleaching agents. Also, they poured bleach into the drains to kill the bacteria.

“I want to tell the Hong Kong government we keep the protest sites clean, even though we are occupying them,” said Fung Wan, 33, a marketing officer who swiped away the leaves on Harcourt Road on Saturday.

Protest leaders and government officials failed to make any significant progress in the past week. The government has rejected the demand that the city’s next leader be chosen directly by voters, saying Beijing’s ruling that the candidates must be approved to run couldn’t be reversed.

Write to Yvonne Lee at yvonne.lee@wsj.com

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