Hong Kong leader orders probe of 13 officials who went to Covid-hit party | The Edge Markets

– A + A HONG KONG (Jan 8): Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam has ordered an inquiry into the behaviour of 13 senior government officials who attended the birthday bash of a delegate to China’s legislature, where two of the 170 guests tested positive for the coronavirus. The officials, along with 19 members of Hong Kong’s new “patriots-only” legislative council, all of whom have so far tested negative, and the other guests were sent to a quarantine facility this week as authorities scrambled to contain the emergence of a new wave of cases. Lam said in a late Friday (Jan…