Omicron: 2,500 residents of coronavirus-hit Hong Kong housing block face unprecedented 5-day lockdown


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Hong Kong authorities will impose a five-day lockdown on 2,500 residents of a public housing block hit by a Covid-19 outbreak in an unprecedented move to prevent the virus spreading in the community, the Post has learned. Two sources on Friday said residents of Yat Kwai House on Kwai Chung Estate would need to be home quarantined for five days. One insider said the Home Affairs Department had prepared food and necessities for the residents. Health minister Sophia Chan Siu-chee and officials from the Centre for Health Protection and Housing Department were expected to give updates on the situation at...