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By Reuters Staff 2 Min Read HONG KONG (Reuters) - A new variant of the novel coronavirus that is spreading rapidly in Britain appears to have infected two students who returned to Hong Kong from the UK, Hong Kong’s Department of Health said on Wednesday, as the city secured 22.5 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine. FILE PHOTO: A health worker collects a swab sample from a woman at a makeshift testing centre on a soccer field following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Hong Kong, China December 8, 2020. REUTERS/Lam Yik Virus samples from the two students, who returned to the Asian financial hub in December, appeared to match the British variant of the coronavirus, Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan, head of the communicable disease branch of the Centre for Health Protection, an agency under the Department of Health, told a daily press briefing.

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