Hong Kong Posts Highest Daily Unlinked Covid Cases in Fifth Wave
Residents queue for Covid-19 tests in the Central area of Hong Kong in January.
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Hong Kong reported the highest daily tally of unlinked infections in its fifth Covid outbreak on Tuesday as the government struggles to contain community transmission.
The city had 129 newly confirmed cases in the 24-hour period ending on Tuesday at 9 a.m., health officials said. Of those, 102 were local cases and 22 have no currently known source, Chuang Shuk-kwan, head of the communicable disease branch of the Center for Health Protection said during a daily press conference. There were another 90 preliminary positive cases disclosed.