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Hong Kong fourth wave: city shifts testing of sewage samples to coronavirus-hit Yau Tsim Mong district
Sewage testing devices have been installed across Hong Kong’s coronavirus-stricken Yau Tsim Mong district in a bid to identify potential new outbreaks in one of the city’s most densely populated areas, a leading government pandemic adviser has told the Post.Professor Gabriel Leung, dean of the University of Hong Kong’s faculty of medicine, said researchers had shifted the focus of their sewage surveillance network from public housing in East Kowloon to Yau Tsim Mong, where outbreaks among…