Coronavirus: Hong Kong within reach of ‘zero local infections’ goal, Carrie Lam says


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Hong Kong’s goal of “zero local infections” is finally within reach after a months-long fight against a resurgent coronavirus , the city’s leader has said. With the exception of a Saturday case still being investigated, the city has now gone 24 days without an untraceable local infection, Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor said on Tuesday. The positive test of a four-year-old boy on the weekend prompted quarantine orders for more than 20 children, staff and family members connected to a local kindergarten. But health authorities are now re-examining the source of infection and whether the test was actually a...