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The party for the 53rd birthday of Witman Hung, a city delegate to the national legislature, took place on Monday, before new restrictions on social life came into force but after Lam appealed to Hong Kong people to avoid large gatherings. A three-month streak of no transmission within the community ended on Dec 31, with the confirmation of the city’s first local infection with the fast-spreading Omicron variant. Several more cases have been detected since and hundreds of their close contacts have been sent to quarantine. Senior officials who attended included Home Affairs Secretary Casper Tsui, Director of Immigration Au...
