Hong Kong reports 2 cases of Omicron COVID-19 variant China News


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HONG KONG, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- Hong Kong's Center for Health Protection (CHP) reported two additional cases of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 on Monday. The cases involved a 62-year-old man and a 50-year-old woman arriving in Hong Kong from Britain together on Dec. 10 and tested positive upon arrival at the Hong Kong International Airport. Both patients had received two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine and had been asymptomatic. The whole genome sequencing confirmed that the cases carried the Omicron strain. So far, seven cases involving Omicron have been detected in Hong Kong. As they were all detected at...