By
Daisy CL Mandap
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| The 2 preliminary positive cases are suspected to carry the Omicron variant |
Health officials ordered a lockdown tonight, Jan 15, on two residential buildings in Tsing Yi and Sham Shui Po where two females who tested preliminary positive for Covid-19 with the Omicron strains live.
The sources of their infection is still unknown.
They were among about 10 preliminary positive
cases reported by the Centre for Health Protection earlier today. A total of
five confirmed cases were also recorded, three of them imported and two with
links to imported cases.
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The Tsing Yi resident is a 41-year-old cleaner
of cargo aircraft at the Hong Kong International Airport. She lives in Wang Sin
House, Cheung Wang Estate, 9 Liu To Road, Tsing Yi.
She tested negative during routine testing on
Jan 8 and 11 and last went to work on Jan 14, when she tested positive for
Covid-19 with a Ct value of about 20, indicating a heavy viral load. She is
fully vaccinated with Sinovac.
The
second is a 43-year-old woman who lives in Tung Moon House, Tai Hang Tung
Estate, 83 Tai Hang Tung Road, Sham Shui Po.
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She
arrived in Hong Kong on Dec 20, 2021 from Pakistan by flight EK384 and she
tested negative at the airport. She spent her 21-day compulsory quarantine at Silka
Seaview Hotel Hong Kong in Yau Ma Tei, during which all the results of her six
tests were negative.
She
moved to her house on Jan 10 and on Jan 14, she underwent another test at a
community testing centre in line with regulations. The result was preliminary
positive, with a heavy viral load. She had two doses of the Sinovac vaccine in
Pakistan.
The
CHP is now investigating the places they visited during the incubation periods
and will conduct genome sequencing and compare them with previously detected
cases in Hong Kong to find their infection sources.
Earlier,
CHP’s Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan said the two local cases reported today were linked
to previous infections that were import-related.
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The
first is a 74-year-old man who lives in Block B of Maple Gardens Phase 3 in
North Point and is a family member of a man who works in Citic securities and
had links with the so-called dance cluster in Causeway Bay.
He
is the fourth person to contract the virus in the residential building, where
experts say a vertical transmission had occurred between two separate flats.
The
other confirmed local case is the 51-year-old female security guard at Penny’s
Bay Quarantine Centre who was tagged as a close contact of a colleague with
whom she shared meals.
The
first patient was found to have caught the virus from a brief encounter through
a screened partition with an infected person who had stayed at the quarantine.
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| A Filipina domestic worker is among 3 imported cases |
Among
the three imported cases is a 36-year-old female domestic helper who flew in
from the Philippines on Jan 5 aboard flight OZ721. She tested positive on her 8th
day of quarantine at the Regala Skylight in Tung Chung.
The
others are both 21-year-old females who both tested positive on arrival at the
airport on Jan 13. The first came by flight KE607 from United Arab Emirates via
Korea and the second aboard flight SQ007 from the United States.
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They
took Hong Kong’s total tally to 13,030 confirmed cases of which 410 are still
undergoing treatment in various public hospitals.
