Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee examined constructive for Covid-19, days after his journey overseas for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation discussion board in Thailand the place he met Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Lee will do business from home through the isolation interval, in keeping with a authorities assertion Monday.

His constructive take a look at comes amid a rising case load in Hong Kong, which has eased again from the strict Covid Zero technique of the primary two years of the pandemic however hasn’t but totally determined to reside with the virus. The metropolis reported 7,763 new infections on Sunday and 13 deaths.