New African variant of Coronavirus transmitted to adjacent room in Hong Kong quarantine hotel


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Add Your News New African variant of Coronavirus transmitted to adjacent room in Hong Kong quarantine hotel Two cases of the new Covid-19 strain raising alarm in parts of southern Africa and unnerving financial markets worldwide have been found in travelers in compulsory quarantine in Hong Kong. A traveler from South Africa was found to have the variant -- currently known as B.1.1.529 -- while the other case was identified in a person who’d traveled from Canada and was quarantined in the hotel room opposite his, the Hong Kong government said late Thursday. The traveler from South Africa used a...