Hong Kong third wave: city records fourth consecutive day of 100-plus new infections, as elderly man becomes 17th fatality linked to Covid-19

Hong Kong registered 100-plus new Covid-19 infections for the fourth day in a row on Saturday, medical sources said, as an elderly coronavirus patient became the city’s 17th death linked to the disease.It was not immediately clear if the number would surpass the record high of 123 cases reported on Friday, which took the total number of infections in the city to 2,372. Health officials said on Friday there were about 100 preliminarily positive cases pending confirmation.In a Facebook post on…

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