Hong Kong to roll out rapid antigen Covid-19 tests for all residents, World


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HONG KONG (REUTERS) - Hong Kong plans to roll out rapid antigen tests for Covid-19 to all its 7.5 million people in the near future, city leader Carrie Lam said on Friday (Feb 4), as the increasingly isolated global financial hub tries to control a new outbreak. Mrs Lam told reporters her government was working on increasing testing, contact tracing and vaccination capacity and making plans to send hospitalised asymptomatic patients to a quarantine facility reserved for close contacts as infections add up. Amid worries of invisible transmissions in the city, Mrs Lam said the government was procuring tens of...