Police charge Cathay flight attendants at centre of Hong Kong COVID-19 outbreak – CNA

HONG KONG: Hong Kong police arrested and charged on Monday (Jan 17) two Cathay Pacific flight attendants for allegedly contravening COVID-19 regulations, after the emergence of the Omicron variant in the territory was traced to their breach of home quarantine. Like China, Hong Kong maintains a strict zero-COVID strategy that has kept cases low, but has largely cut the finance hub off from both the mainland and the rest of the world for the last two years. A recent outbreak of Omicron traced to Cathay air crew who breached their quarantine period led to a dramatic tightening of already strict…