HONG KONG, Sept 27 (SCMP): Hong Kong marked its first day without a local Covid-19 infection since September 15 on Saturday, recording just one imported case, as the city’s welfare chief offered praise for a wage subsidy scheme he said was ‘not perfect’ but had helped avoid a wave of lay-offs amid the pandemic.
The Centre for Health Protection’s announcement, which marked the sixth consecutive day with single-digit cases, came a day after Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor declared the third wave of Covid-19 under control, while warning of the lingering threat of infections with unknown sources.