Hong Kong hunts Covid patient's contacts, orders cruise ship back to port

Hong Kong health authorities on Wednesday began a city-wide search for the contacts of a COVID-19 patient and ordered a Royal Caribbean "cruise to nowhere" ship to return to port early.
 

The global finance hub has stuck to a zero-Covid strategy by largely isolating itself from the world and enforcing a draconian and costly quarantine regime.
 

On Dec. 31, a streak of three months without community cases ended with the first local transmission of the new Omicron variant.
 

Since then, authorities have scrambled to track down and test hundreds of people who had been in contact with a handful of