Hong Kong reported its third locally acquired chikungunya infection on Monday, with health authorities saying that there could be a second source of the disease as this case was not related to the two detected earlier.
Authorities said they would conduct health assessments on about 1,500 households near the patient’s home in Tsing Yi, but believed the risks of transmission were not high due to its early detection and weather conditions that were unfavourable to mosquito breeding.
The Centre for…
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