Some experts predict the city of 7.4 million will have up to 180,000 cases daily next month.
The most vulnerable are particularly at risk, with 67 of the 83 deaths reported on Sunday at nursing homes. Vaccination rates among the elderly have been relatively low and many suffer from chronic illnesses.
Hong Kong is hiring 1,000 temporary workers from mainland China to care for elderly COVID-19 patients at its isolation and treatment facilities, said Law Chi-kwong, secretary for labour and welfare.
Officials have said the mainland would help provide testing, treatment and quarantine capacity. Last week city leader Carrie Lam used emergency powers granted under British colonial-era laws to exempt mainland Chinese staff and projects from any licensing or other legal requirements.
On Saturday, authorities said they would adjust COVID-19 testing procedures to allow some people to test from home to ease long queues at designated testing centres, as the city's outbreak proves increasingly hard to control.
Health secretary Sophia Chan said about 1.3 million rapid testing kits would be handed out to those in higher risk areas and jobs, and people testing positive would have to register their results online.
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