Coronavirus: end to Hong Kong's 33-day streak of no local cases looms with city expecting one infection, potentially a Delta variant | South China Morning Post

Hong Kong's 33-day streak of zero local Covid-19 cases could end on Sunday with the city expecting one infection, likely centred on the Delta variant, while an overnight lockdown at the patient's estate yielded no other positive results. The latest untraceable case, according to a medical source, involved a 50-year-old airport worker, who carried the more transmissive L452R strain but without the N501Y and E484K mutations, meaning it was possibly the Delta coronavirus variant first identified in India. Coronavirus: what's the difference between 'variants' and 'mutants'? Twenty-eight residents at 1-3 Kam Fung Street in Wong Tai Sin, where the airport…