By Vir B. Lumicao
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| The patient works as lounge staff at HK Airport and did not travel recently |
A woman who works as lounge staff at
The source of infection of the 47-year-old local patient, who is unvaccinated, is unknown.
The discovery of the case has prompted an overnight lockdown of the Mei Yat House in Yat Tung II Estate, Tung Chung, where she lives, so all other residents there could be tested for Covid-19.
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According to a statement released by the Centre for Health
Protection, the patient developed symptoms including fever and consulted a
private doctor on Sunday. Later she went to
Her deep throat saliva sample tested preliminary positive and carried the L452R mutant strain.
The CHP has classified the case as a local infection, as the woman had no travel history during the incubation period. She last went to work on Aug 14.
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Her workplace and the places she had visited during the infectious period will be included in a compulsory testing notice, the CHP said.
Earlier, three imported Covid-19 cases were reported by the CHP.
They included a 50-year-old man who came from
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Staff at the Department of Health said the man from
All his companions tested positive for the mutant strain three days after they checked in at Sheraton Hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui, so the patient was moved to a quarantine centre as their close contact. He was confirmed as a positive case yesterday.
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The second patient from
He arrived via Flight CX521 from
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The seafarer apparently arrived by ship at Kwai Chung port on Aug 14 as he had no flight record, the DH staff said. His specimen tested positive yesterday.
The new patients took the number of cases in
The Hospital Authority said that as of 9am today, 37
confirmed patients were being treated in eight public hospitals and the infection
control centre at
One patient is in serious condition and the remaining 36 patients are stable, the HA said.
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