This squashes the idea that the country is free of COVID-19.
After 23 days without a local case of coronavirus, a 66-year-old woman and her 5-year-old granddaughter have been diagnosed with COVID-19—dashing hopes that the country is free of the virus and becoming the latest in a series of regions to experience a resurgence of cases.
With mask-wearing policies, strong contact tracing and stay-home mandates starting in January, Hong-Kong has been able to keep its case count low throughout the pandemic, and has been lauded as a model of containment; the region of about 7.
