Authorities say there have been more than 1 million Covid-19 cases and over 5,400 deaths so far in Hong Kong’s latest wave.
Chuang Shuk-kwan
The city logged 21,979 new Covid-19 notification cases and 47 deaths today – all but four of the new cases are local infections.
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Hong Kong’s Centre for Health Protection (CHP) confirmed 40 more local Covid-19 cases today – more than half of which were infected via unknown sources.
