Coronavirus: cleaner at Hong Kong quarantine hotel tests preliminary-positive for more infectious variant

A cleaner at a Hong Kong quarantine hotel has tested preliminary-positive for a more infectious mutant strain of Covid-19, potentially dashing officials’ hopes that a previous Delta transmission scare had been brought under control.The infection prompted an overnight lockdown of the Port Centre in Aberdeen, where the patient lives, for compulsory screening, but no new infections were detected following the testing of 530 people.If confirmed, the case would bring the city’s 24-day run of zero…

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