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4 FDHs test positive for Covid-19 while in quarantine

10 May 2021

By The SUN 

The 4 infected FDHs arrived on various dates last month

Four foreign domestic helpers, three from Indonesia and one from India, were the only confirmed cases of Covid-19 reported in Hong Kong today, May 10. No one was found to carry the coronavirus variant.

It marked the second straight day that no new local cases were found, and continued a streak of single-digit infections in the city.

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According to staff at the Centre for Health Protection, the Indian DH arrived on Apr 18 via flight UK 6397, just two days before Hong Kong imposed a flight ban on India, Pakistan and the Philippines, which remains to this day.

The 36-year-old woman was on her 19th day in quarantine at Grand City Hotel in Sai Ying Pun when she was found infected.

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The three others are all Indonesian women who arrived in Hong Kong on different dates.

The first to arrive is 25 years old, and flew in on Apr 23 aboard CX 2780. She developed symptoms on May 3 while in quarantine at Regal Oriental Hotel in Kowloon City.

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The second is 38 years old and arrived via CX 798 on Apr 25. She was asymptomatic and was staying at Vela Hotel in Wan Chai when she tested positive on her 12th day sample.

The third is 36 years old and arrived on Apr 30 via CX 2780. She tested positive on her 7th day sample while staying at Silka Seaview Hotel in Yau Ma Tei.

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They took the number of cases in Hong Kong to 11,812.

A top microbiologist says HK is lucky that the variant that spread recently was not virulent 

Meanwhile, a microbiologist from the University of Hong Kong has told RTHK that the city has been lucky to have escaped an outbreak of a more virulent strain of the coronavirus.

Siddhart Sridhar was referring to the a cluster of infections linked to an Indian man who flew in from Dubai and apparently caught the variant first found in South Africa during his hotel quarantine.

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Seven people in Hong Kong caught the mutant virus from him, including his girlfriend and her mother, three domestic helpers and an employer and her 10-month-old baby.

Sridhar said wearing masks probably helped, but warned Hong Kong may not be as lucky next time.

He said authorities should remain cautious, since the virus is now seen to have a longer incubation period. He also said the coronavirus is here to stay, and vaccination is the only way out of the pandemic.

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