UK Coronavirus Variant Likely Detected in Two Students in Hong Kong As City Secures Vaccine Supplies


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A new variant of the novel coronavirus that is spreading rapidly in Britain appears to have infected two students who returned to Hong Kong from the UK, Hong Kong's Department of Health said on Wednesday, as the city secured 22.5 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine. Virus samples from the two students, who returned to the Asian financial hub in December, appeared to match the British variant of the coronavirus , Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan, head of the communicable disease branch of the Centre for Health Protection, an agency under the Department of Health, told a daily press briefing. More analysis needed...