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HONG KONG, Feb 5 — More than 1,800 passengers and crew on a cruise ship that docked in Hong Kong today were being kept on board while they were tested for a coronavirus after some crew reported fever, authorities said. The former British colony saw its first death from the coronavirus virus...

Wednesday, 05 Feb 2020 03:06 PM MYT

Hong Kong health workers have been on strike this week to demand that city authorities seal the border with China, where the virus originated last month, to block its spread. Dream Cruises, which is operated by Genting Hong Kong, said in a statement the three"confirmed" cases of the virus had disembarked in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou on January 24.

"As the disease is spreading rapidly in our community, and locally infected cases are steadily increasing, we are dangerously close to a massive community outbreak comparable to SARS," a newly formed union called the Hospital Authority Employees Alliance said in a statement.

 

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