Hong Kong bans some inbound flights, tightens domestic COVID-19 restrictions

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By Twinnie Siu and Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) -Hong Kong announced a two-week ban on incoming flights from eight countries on Wednesday and tightened local COVID-19 restrictions as authorities feared a fifth wave of coronavirus in the city. The latest restrictions were announced as health authorities scoured the city for the contacts of a COVID-19 patient, some of whom had been aboard a Royal Caribbean ship that was ordered to cut short its “cruise to nowhere” and return to port. Incoming flights from Australia, Canada, France, India, Pakistan, Philippines, Britain and the United States, …

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