Hong Kong’s Omicron outbreak expected to end by early February, leading health adviser says


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Hong Kong’s Omicron outbreak is expected to end around Lunar New Year at the start of February provided no untraceable chains of Covid-19 transmission emerge in the community, a government pandemic adviser has predicted. The assessment by University of Hong Kong microbiologist Professor Yuen Kwok-yung came as health authorities revealed on Thursday that one of two untraceable cases, involving a security guard at the Penny’s Bay quarantine camp, had the same genome sequence as a female flight attendant who triggered a dance cluster at the centre of the outbreak. Yuen said the current string of infections was being managed and...