By The SUN
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| The CHP says 7 crew members of Glory Sky are now confirmed to have Covid-19 |
Six more crewmen of the cargo ship Glory Sky, one of them a
Filipino, and three other imported cases were reported today, Dec 5, by Hong
Kong health officials as the latest coronavirus patients carrying the highly
contagious L452R variant.
The Filipino seafarer, 45, received two doses of BioNTech vaccine in the Philippines on Jun 8 and Jul 8 while one of his colleagues, who is 56 years old, received the single dose vaccine from Johnson&Johnson on Aug 27 in Poland.
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It was not known if the rest of the crew were vaccinated.
The Centre for Health Protection said the nine additional confirmed cases, all male aged 25 to 62, had taken the number of cases in Hong Kong to 12,462 so far, including one probable case.
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Today’s six crew members arrived in Hong Kong from Japan on Dec 1 on the cargo ship
Glory Sky. They were aboard the vessel when a crewman developed symptoms and
was tested positive for Covid-19 with the L452R mutant strain on Friday.
The CHP collected specimens of 20 other Glory Sky crewmen undergoing quarantine on the vessel on Dec 3 and the six new patients tested positive on Saturday.
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The remaining crewmen of the cement carrier will continue to be tested in accordance with current regulations during their quarantine period on board the ship.
The three other new patients reported today arrived in Hong Kong from Cyprus
and the United Kingdom, the UK, and Pakistan, which are all Group A or
high-risk countries.
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The 48-year-old passenger had symptoms when he arrived from
The other two new patients tested positive during quarantine.
The first was a 25-year-old who arrived from London on Dec 1 via CX218. He developed symptoms on Dec 3 while in quarantine at Dorsett Tsuen Wan. He received two doses of BioNTech jabs on May 6 and May 28.
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The second arrived from
A total of 53 cases have been reported in the past 14 days to Dec 4 and all of them are imported cases.
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| An 80-year-old man from Canada is in critical condition in North Lantau Hospital |
The Hospital Authority said a total of 55 confirmed patients are confined in the North Lantau Hospital Hong Kong Infection Control Centre and the HA Infectious Disease Centre.
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Among those patients, an 80-year-old man who arrived
from
The elderly patient was asymptomatic when he tested positive on his third-day sample while under quarantine at Metropark Hotel in Kowloon. He received two doses of the BioNTech vaccine in Canada on May 16 and Jul 21.
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The CHP’s epidemiological investigations and contact tracing on the confirmed cases are ongoing.
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