Hong Kong has recorded two infections with a newly identified coronavirus variant that has sparked international concern because its many mutations make it potentially more transmissible and able to evade an immune response. The two patients both served a period of quarantine at the Regal Airport Hotel – with a traveller from South Africa, where the latest variant was first identified, found to have infected the person in the room next to him. Authorities said that following a whole genome sequencing analysis conducted by the University of Hong Kong (HKU), the new variant was confirmed in both…

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