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Hong Kong men face higher Covid-19 risk, less alert to symptoms than women, researchers say




Hong Kong men face a higher infection rate and are less alert to Covid-19 symptoms than women, according to a university research.Male patients were also more likely to be diagnosed later because of lower awareness, said one of the researchers, Dr Martin Wong Chi-sang, a professor at the school of public health at Chinese University (CUHK).The results were based on a study of all 1,038 local cases of Covid-19 detected between January 23 and April 25. The report concluded that the Covid-19 risk…



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