Lee Tests Negative for Covid

Lee tested positive after returning from Bangkok last week

Six days after Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu returned to Hong Kong from Bangkok, Thailand for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit, he has tested negative for Covid-19.

"Except for the occasional cough, my body is not having any particular issues," he wrote on his social media, announcing his rapid antigen test result had only one line, which is negative.

He also ate street food in Bangkok with staff

Lee had received his fourth vaccine dose in September and urged others to get vaccinated for better protection against severe symptoms.

When he tested positive he apparently had a "mild fever" and a "slight sore throat".

A reporter who interviewed Lee (who was not wearing a mask) in Bangkok, passed the virus on the journalist, who has had a very bad bout of fever and sore throat. So while Lee might have had a mild case, he seemed to have passed on a high viral load to the reporter!

The lengths reporters have to go through to get the news these days...