Omicron: 2,700 residents of coronavirus-hit Hong Kong housing block face unprecedented 5-day lockdown

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Hong Kong authorities will impose a five-day lockdown on 2,700 residents of a public housing block hit by a Covid-19 outbreak in an unprecedented move to prevent the virus spreading in the community.

Residents of Yat Kwai House on Kwai Chung Estate must be home quarantined for five days until Wednesday and would be provided with food and other necessities, health minister Sophia Chan Siu-chee announced on Friday evening.

The number of cases in the block of flats had risen to 20 by Friday afternoon, with a suspected Omicron superspreader believed to have passed on the coronavirus.