Hong Kong Logs First Cases Of XBD, BF.7 Strains
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2022-10-18 HKT 17:29
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Hong Kong on Tuesday reported its first cases of two Covid sub-lineages – XBD and BF.7.
Health officials said that a local patient, along with an imported case, tested positive for the XBD sub-lineage.
Three imported infections were also found to involve the BF.7 variant.
Meanwhile, there were 35 additional imported cases of the XBB strain and two more cases of the BQ.1.1 strain.
For the day, there were a total of 4,954 new Covid infections, including 388 imported cases.
There were seven more deaths of Covid patients.
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USEFUL LINKS General Covid-19 situation: https://www.coronavirus.gov.hk/eng/
Community Clinics for Covid-19 patients: https://bit.ly/3EiiczCRAT reporting platform:
https://www.chp.gov.hk/ratp/Vaccination programme:
https://www.covidvaccine.gov.hk/sen/Vaccination pass scheme:
https://www.coronavirus.gov.hk/eng/vaccine-pass.htmlHotline for Covid-positive patients: 1836 115
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