Hong Kong reports 73 new COVID-19 cases

China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) reported 73 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, including 66 locally transmitted infections, Hong Kong's Center for Health Protection (CHP) said on Monday.

There are 27 cases with unknown sources of infection, Chuang Shuk-kwan, head of the CHP's Communicable Disease Branch, told the media.

Kevin Yeung, secretary for education of HKSAR, announced earlier in the day that kindergartens and international schools in the city will remain closed until mid-August because of the epidemic.