Coronavirus: tens of thousands of Hong Kong airport staff ordered to undergo testing after worker’s…


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Tens of thousands of Hong Kong airport workers have been ordered to undergo Covid-19 screening after health authorities confirmed a second coronavirus infection, also likely to involve the Delta variant, among staff in the space of about three weeks. The single infection, now classified as a local transmission with an untraceable origin, ended a 33-day streak of zero community coronavirus cases in the city. In a press conference on Sunday, the Centre for Health Protection’s communicable diseases branch head Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan warned a spread could have taken place under the radar, as a previous case on June 24 involved...