The SUN HK : 3 new imported infections today, 2 of them from banned Turkish flight

30 August 2021

By The SUN

There are now 5 confirmed cases from the Turkish Air flight that arrived in HK on Friday

Two more passengers of the Turkish Airlines flight suspended yesterday were confirmed to have Covid-19 today, Aug 30.

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The 27-year-old man and a 3-year-old boy were found infected at a quarantine centre after their two female relatives tested positive at the airport after arriving in Hong Kong from Istanbul on Friday.

Turkish Air flight TK 083 was suspended for two weeks starting yesterday after three of its passengers, including the two women, tested positive on their arrival in Hong Kong.

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Separately, Philippines Airlines flight PR 200 from Manila was also banned from flying to Hong Kong for the same period after three of its passengers were also found infected on arrival test.

The man from Turkey received two doses of the BioNTech vaccine in the United Kingdom on Jun 27 and Jul 22, at the same time as their female relatives, aged 22 and 66.

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Both he and the boy are asymptomatic.

Their test results for the mutant strain of the coronavirus are still pending.

The third patient today is a 24-year-old man who flew in from Egypt on Thursday, and was found to carry the more infectious L452R strain of the coronavirus while in quarantine at Ramada Grand hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui.