Hong Kong reports third Covid-19 case involving ‘Delta Plus’ variant


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The second [Covid](tag?_=covid) -19 patient in Hong Kong found to be carrying the “Delta Plus” variant probably infected a man in the adjacent hotel room after breathing heavily during exercise and spreading the [coronavirus](tag?_=coronavirus) through the air, health experts said on Friday night. Health officials announced the city’s third case of the more transmissible Delta Plus variant after carrying out an investigation at the Sheraton Hong Kong Tung Chung Hotel, where the patients had been undergoing quarantine on the same floor from November 1 to 6. The case resulted in an additional 14 days of quarantine for 54 current and...