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Hong Kong authorities activate 'serious response' level to fight new contagious disease

The authorities in Hong Kong have recently created and activated a new 'serious response' level in order to deal with a new infectious disease. The illness is speculated to have from mainland China and appears to be a kind of pneumonia. They have installed a new thermal imaging system to scan the temperatures of everyone entering Hong Kong.

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Sun Jan 05 - GlobalNews

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