Hong Kong Finds More New Covid Mutant Strains

Friday October 14, 2022.

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Hong Kong logged one BA.4.6 and one BQ.1.1 infection on Friday. Image: Shutterstock case Image: Shutterstock

Health officials on Friday said they have detected the first imported Covid cases of new sub-variants BA.4.6 and BQ.1.1.

They also recorded three more cases involving the XBB strain, as well as one additional infection of BA.2.75.2.

For the day, the city logged 5,106 new coronavirus infections, including 336 imported cases.

A further seven Covid patients died.

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