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Hong Kong virus cluster prompts partial lockdown
Updated On: 26 January, 2022 09:17 AM IST | Hong Kong | Agencies
Second residential block at Kwai Chung housing complex will be locked down for five days; lockdown in block where virus was first detected will be extended
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Residents line up to get tested for the coronavirus in a lockdown area in Kwai Chung Estate, Hong Kong on Saturday. Pic/AP
Hong Kong expanded a partial lockdown and tightened pandemic restrictions Tuesday after more than 200 cases of Covid-19 were discovered at a public housing estate. Hong Kong has already suspended many overseas flights and requires arrivals be quarantined, similar to mainland China’s “zero-tolerance” approach to the virus that has placed millions under lockdowns and mandates mask wearing, rigorous case tracing and mass testing.
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said a second residential block at Kwai Chung housing complex will be locked down for five days. The block where the virus was first discovered is already under lockdown, which will now be extended from five to seven days. The measures aimed to “play safe protecting the residents as well as preventing the spread of the virus,” Lam said.
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