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South China Morning Post on 2024-01-27 07:37

Hongkongers should get Covid XBB variant jabs, flu shots ahead of Lunar New Year amid higher outbreak risk, medical expert says

Professor Ivan Hung says about 80 per cent of cases at Queen Mary Hospital’s isolation ward are related to Covid-19.

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