Coronavirus: Hong Kong’s 51-day streak without local Covid-19 infection over, after airport worker tests positive | South China Morning Post


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Hong Kong’s 51-day streak without a local Covid-19 infection is over, after an airport worker was confirmed as being positive for the coronavirus, the Post has learned. It is uncertain if the local case could affect the continuing discussions on reopening the border with mainland China, but Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor promised on Friday that she would keep up the effort to restore quarantine-free travel. Speaking on a radio programme, Lam asked residents to “bear with us, we will be working very, very hard”. The city’s leader said resuming quarantine-free travel with the mainland was more of a...