Two people in Hong Kong tested positive for coronavirus, officials said Wednesday, ending a 24-day run of no new local cases that saw the city begin to ease social distancing regulations.
The financial hub was on course for 28-days of no local transmissions -- a yardstick often used by epidemiologists to judge if an outbreak has been defeated.
But on Wednesday officials said a 66-year-old woman and her five-year-old granddaughter had tested positive for the virus. Investigators described them as local transmission cases, saying they were still trying to work out how the older woman had become infected. "She has no travel history.