issues of acute respiratory illness. again, indicating at least anecdotally that omicron in this country has been less severe. i m ivan watson in hong kong, where authorities had a grim warning to residents on new year s eve. they said for the first time in nearly three months there have been two cases of local transmission of covid. both of the omicron variant. and it s being blamed on an air crew member of the cathay pacific airline who they accuse of breaking at-home orders and going to dine in a restaurant where the cases appear to have spread. now, they re calling for more severe quarantine restrictions on air crew, so cathay pacific is suspending long-haul cargo flights, saying this is going to cause severe disruptions to the supply chain. meanwhile, the government is urging the population to get a
faster and more widely than anything we ve seen in this pandemic. and that has governments around the world scrambling to react. our team of international correspondents has this global resp response. reporter: i m ivan watson in hong kong, where authorities had a grim warning to residents on new year s eve. they said for the first time in nearly three months, there have been two cases of local transmission of covid. both of the omicron variant. and it s being blamed on an air crew member of the cathay pacific airline, who they accuse of breaking at-home orders and going to dine in a restaurant where the cases appear to have spread. now, they re calling for more severe quarantine restrictions on air crew, so cathay pacific is suspending, for at least a week, long-haul cargo flights, saying this is going to cause severe disruptions to the supply