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Saturday, November 27, 2021

Coronavirus: unvaccinated Hongkongers could be banned from restaurants, schools in bid to combat new ‘Omicron’ variant

Hong Kong is considering banning unvaccinated residents from entering certain businesses in a bid to prevent the transmission of a new, more contagious coronavirus variant already found in the city, the minister in charge of the Covid-19 jab drive said.The stricter rules revealed by Civil Service Secretary Patrick Nip Tak-kuen on Saturday followed the World Health Organization’s (WHO) decision overnight to name the new variant detected in South Africa “Omicron”, after the Greek letter. It also…


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