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Hong Kong: Hong Kong will stop most ships from changing crews in the territory from Wednesday to cut back on quarantine exemptions blamed for causing a third wave of coronavirus cases. After seemingly ending local transmissions for weeks, new infections have hit triple figures on a daily basis in the densely packed finance hub — sparking fears the new outbreak is spreading out of control. More than 1,000 infections have been confirmed since early July — more than 40 percent of the total since the virus first hit the city in late January. Some health experts have blamed an exemption...