By The SUN
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| Meadowlands, where the couple lives, will now be subject to compulsory testing |
A couple who met up with
several groups over the long Easter holiday and tested positive yesterday for
Covid-19 has sent up to 50 of their close contacts to quarantine.
This was according to health
officials who held a press briefing today, Thursday, on the coronavirus
situation.
The couple who live in
Meadowlands in Yuen Long were among six new infections reported today, four of
them imported. The additional cases drove up the city’s total tally to 11,619.
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More than 10 preliminary
cases were reported, five of them locally acquired. They are all linked to the 29-year-old
woman who was reported infected today, including her parents and three other family
members.
The four imported cases included
two with the N501Y variant. One is a 39-year-old man who arrived from Italy,
and the other, a 31-year-old man who came from France.
The two other cases who did
not carry the variant are a 43-year-old woman who flew in from the Philippines,
and a 4-month-old baby girl from India who arrived on Apr 4.
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According to Dr Ambrose Wong
of the Centre for Health Protection, the local cases looked like a post-Easter
outbreak.
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| Wong says the outbreak looks like an Easter holiday cluster |
“It’s related to the Easter holiday. It’s quite obvious because the family gathered during the holiday. If all of them become confirmed, it will be one Easter holiday cluster,” he said.
The wife, who works as accounts manager at
Quality Healthcare Nursing Agency in Kowloon Bay, felt unwell on Apr 9 but did
not see a doctor and just took some over-the-counter medicines.'
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She saw a doctor last Monday after she
lost her sense of taste, and tested positive yesterday. She lives with her
husband and her parents.
Her husband, a 38-year-old
property agent, started coughing on Sunday and was found infected at the same
time.
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On Apr 2, the woman met up
with eight other people at a friend’s house in Ngau Chi Wan. On Apr 3, 5 and 9
she visited her in-laws at their home in Siu Sai Wan Estate. About seven family
members were present.
Her uncle, aunt and
14-year-old cousin also visited her at home and all of them are now also
preliminary positive.
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Among the other places the
woman visited during the incubation period were a noodle shop in Mongkok and a
law firm in Central, both on Mar 30. On Apr 4, she also visited a ramen
restaurant in Yuen Long with her husband and mother.
On Apr 5 she visited a shop
in Kwun Tong and another one in Island Resort Mall on Apr 10. She also visited
a nail shop in Mong Kok on the same day.
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All the places she visited
will be closed for disinfection for 14 days and the staff there tested while
her close contacts will be sent to quarantine.
Also subjected to the same
orders are the school that her cousin attended, and the offices where her aunt
and uncle worked at in Kwai Chung.
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