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Hong Kong’s ongoing fifth wave of coronavirus infections could take two to three months to be contained, while easing social-distancing measures around the Lunar New Year holiday is an outright impossibility, a government pandemic adviser has said. Leading microbiologist Professor Yuen Kwok-yung said there would be more cases uncovered in the next seven to 14 days after more than 100 residents of buildings at Kwai Chung Estate were found to be infected with the more transmissive Omicron variant and another 11 were caught up in a Delta cluster linked to local pet shops. “It’s obvious that the fifth wave is...
