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Hong Kong's leader John Lee announces that the city will fully scrap the mask mandate: "I have an announcement to make, the mask mandate will be fully scrapped starting tomorrow, 1st March." SOUNDBITE
Hong Kong, May 6 (EFE/EPA).- Over 1,000 residents in 400 units of the 52-storey residential block in Hong Kong have been ordered into government quarantine centers for 21 days, including fully vaccinated residents, after a domestic helper and her employer’s 10-month-old daughter tested positive for a mutated strain of Covid-19 coronavirus on Apr. 29. (Camera: JEROME FAVRE).B-ROLL OF THE EXTERIOR OF THE TOWER 11 OF CARMEL COVE AT THE CARIBBEAN COAST HOUSING ESTATE IN HONG KONG.
Pro-democracy activists kicked off three days of rallies at Hong Kong's airport on Friday, hoping to win international support from arriving passengers as the protests that have rocked the city enter a third month. IMAGES
John Lee was sworn in as the new Chief Executive of Hong Kong by Chinese President Xi Jinping during an oath-taking ceremony on the 25th anniversary of the city's handover from Britain. IMAGES
Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam holds a meeting with her newly-confirmed successor John Lee, who was anointed the city's next leader after 99 percent of a small committee comprising of 0.02 of the city's population voted in support of him on Sunday. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).