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| Man in HK's first confirmed case of coronavirus is wheeled into hospital (SCMP photo) |
Hong Kong health authorities have sounded out the alarm on
the family of the city's first confirmed coronavirus case who they say have flown out to Manila
Health Minister Sophia Chan said four members of the
39-year-old Chinese man flew out of Hong Kong aboard Cebu Pacific flight 5J111
which landed in Manila
In Manila, a spokesperson for Cebu Pacific has been reported as saying
no one on the flight was quarantined. Department of Health authorities have
also reportedly said the Bureau of Quarantine at Manila
airport “did not encounter” the four family members.
Hong Kong authorities, however, are reportedly tracking down
the family members in the Philippines
Within hours after the first confirmed case in Hong Kong was reported,
another man who had traveled to Wuhan
The 56-year-old man
was initially taken to Prince of Wales Hospital but was later transferred to Prince Margaret
Hospital
The first confirmed case is also in an isolation ward at Princess Margaret Hospital
The man reportedly boarded a train in Wuhan
and traveled to Shenzhen, where he took another train to the West
Kowloon rail terminus. He was detected as having fever at the
border and was taken to hospital.
His family members who did not show symptoms managed to
enter Hong Kong and spent the night at the Empire Hotel Kowloon in Tsim Sha Tsui before
taking the Cebu Pacific flight this morning.
They landed in Manila before Hong Kong reported that preliminary tests had shown that
their relative had the dreaded coronavirus.
Also reporting its first confirmed case of the coronavirus
today was Macau . The patient was identified as
a 52-year-old businesswoman who had traveled by high-speed train from Wuhan to Zhuhai before entering Macau .
She was quarantined after visiting a local hospital, complaining of a cough.
Yesterday, a 5-year-old boy who had traveled to Wuhan was also reported as the first suspected case of the
coronavirus in the Philippines Cebu
City
Samples taken from the boy have been sent on to Australia
There are about 500 confirmed cases of the virus that was first
seen among people who had visited a wet market in Wuhan ,
a city in Central China . It is now confirmed
to have been transmitted from human to human. A further eight people were confirmed to have died from the coronavirus today, bringing the total death toll to 17.
The coronavirus is so named because of the crown-like spikes
on its surface that cause respiratory ailments ranging from a simple flu to the
deadly severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) that killed 737 people
worldwide, 299 of them in Hong Kong.
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