Hong Kong adds five imported cases, all fully vaccinated

Health authorities on Friday reported five new imported Covid infections, all of which were fully vaccinated.

Three of them were domestic helpers who flew in from the Philippines. The remaining two are aircrew members, with one of them flying into the city from Russia, while the other one was said to have visited the United States before flying in from the United Kingdom.

All of them were found carrying the L452R mutant strain of the coronavirus.

Meanwhile, all of them were fully vaccinated with the BioNTech, Janssen, Sputnik V, and AstraZeneca vaccines.

Authorities have reported 61 cases in the past two weeks and all of them are imported cases.

In total, the city has recorded 12,343 confirmed cases since the start of the pandemic.

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