
Parents separated from baby as Hong Kong clings to zero-Covid
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Fighting back tears, Laura and Nick struggle to comfort their sobbing 11-month-old daughter, Ava, through a phone screen.
"Bubba, we love you...we're going to come and get you darling. We will," Laura says, in a video of a phone call with their child the parents shared with CNN.
They're in the same city, but Laura and Nick aren't allowed to visit Ava at Hong Kong's Queen Mary Hospital, where the infant is recovering from Covid-19 after testing positive on Monday. They've asked CNN not to publish their full names for privacy reasons.

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