They may have been brief stopovers, but they left a deadly mark on Hong Kong history.
On February 21, 2003, a 64-year-old medical professor from Guangzhou in neighbouring Guangdong province checked into the Metropole Hotel in Mong Kok, where he took ill. About three weeks later, a sick Shenzhen man visited his brother at a flat in Block E of the Amoy Gardens estate in Kowloon Bay.
Suffering from a mysterious disease, the professor, later known as “patient zero”, infected other...
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