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2 UK arrivals found to carry Omicron variant

13 December 2021

By The SUN 

The 2 new Omicron carriers tested positive on arrival from the UK at HK Airport

Two residents who flew in from the United Kingdom on Dec 10 have been found to carry Omicron, bringing the total number of patients with the highly infectious variant to seven.

The Centre for Health Protection made the announcement, as two additional confirmed cases of Covid-19 were reported today, Dec 13.

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According to CHP, the two patients from the UK, a 62-year-old man and a 50-year-old woman arrived in Hong Kong together on board flight CX252. They tested positive on their arrival test at HK International Airport, and their cases were reported yesterday.

Both were asymptomatic. However the Ct value for their Covid-19 test after admission to hospital was less than 30, indicating a heavy viral load, although both tested positive for antibodies.

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A genome sequencing of their cases conducted by the Department of Health’s public laboratory confirmed that they carried Omicron, which has been listed by the World Health Organization as a variant of concern.

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Five earlier cases had been detected to have Omicron, including two related to a case from South Africa, two related to Nigeria, and one from the United States.

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The CHP said that as all seven cases were detected at the airport or at a designated quarantine facility, there has been local transmission of the variant in the community.

Meanwhile, one of today’s new confirmed cases involved a 50-year-old man who had been to Tanzania, South Africa and Kenya, before traveling to Hong Kong from Qatar on Dec 10 aboard QR818.

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In line with quarantine restrictions, the patient was sent to Penny’s Bay for the first seven days of his 21-day quarantine, during which he was tested daily. He developed symptoms yesterday and was found infected.

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The other patient is a 75-year-old man from Pakistan who took the EK384 flight to Hong Kong from the United Arab Emirates on Dec 7. He was found to carry the coronavirus with the L452R mutant strain on his third day of quarantine at Silka Far East Hotel in Tsuen Wan.

The additional infections took Hong Kong’s total Covid-19 tally to 12,491, which includes one probable case.

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