A Hong Kong lawmaker tested positive for coronavirus after posing for a photo with President Xi Jinping

A Hong Kong lawmaker who posed for a group photo with the Chinese president Xi Jinping During the president’s visit to the island this week, he said on Sunday that he tested positive for coronavirus.

Steven Hoa 42-year-old member of the main pro-Beijing party in Hong Kongwas one of about 100 officials granted close contact with Xi for a group photo on Thursday.

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In the photo Ho was located two rows just behind Xi.

Ho is the second DAB party member to test positive for COVID-19 during Xi’s visit to Hong Kong on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the return to Chinese sovereignty of the former British colony.

China It is the last major economy that maintains a strict health strategy, based on quarantining people who are positive, in selective confinements or in mandatory PCR tests.

Xi has not left China in almost 900 days and the country’s borders have been largely closed to most foreigners.

The authorities imposed strict rules to ensure that both the coronavirus and the political opposition were not in Xi’s orbit during his trip to Hong Kong.

Hundreds of government officials, lawmakers and other guests were forced to undergo a “closed circuit” system against the virus, which included limiting their social contacts, taking daily tests and undergoing quarantine in a hotel for the days prior to the visit.

Source: Elcomercio

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