Coronavirus: genome analysis ‘rules out’ Hong Kong domestic worker getting variant from family at quarantine hotel

A Hong Kong domestic worker, the city’s third locally detected Covid-19 variant case, did not contract the virus from neighbouring guests in her quarantine hotel as initially suspected, a researcher has revealed to the Post.The 38-year-old Filipina, who last Friday was confirmed to be carrying the N501Y mutation, had a different variant than the family in the room opposite hers at the Ramada Hong Kong Harbour View hotel in Sai Ying Pun, genome sequencing conducted by Polytechnic University has…

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