Hong Kong boosts health authority powers

Updated January 7 2020 - 5:18pm, first published 5:12pm
Hong Kong health authorities can quarantine visitors from China with symptoms of a mystery illness.
Hong Kong health authorities can quarantine visitors from China with symptoms of a mystery illness.

Hong Kong's health authority will be able to quarantine patients suspected of contracting an unidentified illness in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, after a law change announced by Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam.

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