Hong Kong fourth wave: police hunt for Covid-19 patient continues as hospital security lapses leave officials red-faced

Hong Kong police on Saturday were still hunting for a Covid-19 patient well over 24 hours after he fled from a public hospital, while health officials were left red-faced over a series of security lapses that allowed him to put the public at risk. On a day that the number of confirmed coronavirus infections across the city surged to 109, officials admitted the patient, identified as 63-year-old Li Wan-keung, had been previously uncooperative and attempted to leave his isolation ward at Queen…

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