Panic buying in supermarkets and mass lock downs were taking place 2 years ago in the rest of the world, which is now opening up and lifting restrictions. Most countries are treating COVID as endemic as they realise it can't be eliminated and we have to live with it.
A similar city state, Singapore records around 15 000 new cases a day but only about 1% are hospitalised, 0.1 end up in ICU with a handful of deaths.
Soon, HKG will be more isolated than North Korea because it won't open to the rest of the world but will be closed off to China due to the current outbreak.