Around 80 Hong Kong residents of a block in Jordan were tested for Covid-19 and put in quarantine for 21 days after a person in the same block recently tested positive for a more infectious strain of the coronavirus. Photo: RTHK Around 80 Hong Kong residents of a block in Jordan were tested for Covid-19 and put in quarantine for 21 days after a person in the same block recently tested positive for a more infectious strain of the coronavirus. Photo: RTHK
Around 80 Hong Kong residents of a block in Jordan were tested for Covid-19 and put in quarantine for 21 days after a person in the same block recently tested positive for a more infectious strain of the coronavirus. Photo: RTHK
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Spread of variant proves we are not out of the woods yet

  • The need for extending and reinforcing some of the health and social-distancing controls must not be ruled out

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Updated: 12:37pm, 20 Apr, 2021

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Around 80 Hong Kong residents of a block in Jordan were tested for Covid-19 and put in quarantine for 21 days after a person in the same block recently tested positive for a more infectious strain of the coronavirus. Photo: RTHK Around 80 Hong Kong residents of a block in Jordan were tested for Covid-19 and put in quarantine for 21 days after a person in the same block recently tested positive for a more infectious strain of the coronavirus. Photo: RTHK
Around 80 Hong Kong residents of a block in Jordan were tested for Covid-19 and put in quarantine for 21 days after a person in the same block recently tested positive for a more infectious strain of the coronavirus. Photo: RTHK
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