Coronavirus: Hong Kong ‘could experience five-digit daily caseloads’ if more transmissive Omicron subvariants become dominant

Hong Kong’s daily Covid-19 caseload could surge to five digits if the more transmissive Omicron subvariants become dominant in five to 10 weeks, a health expert has warned.

But the projection was questioned by another epidemiologist Benjamin Cowling, who argued that the city’s infected population had an adequate level of immunity against subvariants.