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Hong Kong fourth wave: hotel quarantine for overseas arrivals extended to 21 days from current 14 amid fears of new variants, as city records 71 Covid-19 cases Hongkongers should avoid large social gatherings, health officials say. Photo: SOPA Images via ZUMA Wire/dpa
All overseas arrivals into Hong Kong will have to quarantine in designated hotels for 21 days, starting from Friday - up from the current 14 days - as city authorities further tightened control measures in their bid to contain the fourth wave of coronavirus infections.
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Hong Kong: 82 COVID-19 cases detected
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The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) today said it is investigating 82 additional COVID-19 cases, adding that residents of a Wong Tai Sin public housing block must undergo compulsory testing as further infections were reported there.
The centre s Communicable Disease Branch Head Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan told a press briefing there are 77 local cases, of which 37 have an unknown source of infection.
Of the cases linked with previous ones, two are residents of Kwai Tung House at Tung Tau Estate in Wong Tai Sin, taking the number of infections there to nine.
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