Coronavirus: pro-Beijing delegation exploring ways to attend top legislature, advisory body meetings virtually after colleague tests positive


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Members of a pro-Beijing delegation from Hong Kong are exploring ways to attend the country’s two most important annual conferences virtually, after getting stuck in quarantine in Shenzhen for 21 days when their colleague tested positive for the coronavirus. The trip of about a dozen Hong Kong delegates bound for Beijing to attend meetings of the nation’s top legislature, the National People’s Congress (NPC), and advisory body, the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), was cut short on Friday when Irons Sze Wing-wai tested positive while undergoing quarantine across the border. Ten others who shared the same bus with Sze,...