Hong Kong must be on Covid-19 alert for whole of 2021 as vaccines are no silver bullet, warns top official, as city’s death toll climbs to 117

Hong Kong’s financial chief has told the city to remain vigilant against the coronavirus threat for the duration of 2021, with Covid-19 vaccines unable to eradicate all infections.Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po’s warning came as Queen Elizabeth Hospital announced on Sunday that a 42-year-old female Covid-19 patient had died the previous evening, bringing the number of deaths in the city related to the virus to 117.She was the third youngest patient to have died after contracting the…

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