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Covid-19’s Mu variant, which is potentially more resistant to vaccines , has not yet entered the Hong Kong community, a government coronavirus adviser has said, a success another expert credited to the city’s “zero-infection” strategy and tough quarantine regime. Professor David Hui Shu-cheong, a Chinese University respiratory medicine specialist and government pandemic adviser, made the assessment on Monday after it emerged last week that three infected travellers – arrivals from Colombia and the United States this summer – carried Mu, now considered a variant of interest by the World Health Organization (WHO). Hui said the three patients were asymptomatic, showed...
