By The SUN
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| 29 kids developed URTI symptoms in the kindergarten (File) |
The Centre for Health Protection has said in a statement issued Friday that it is investigating an outbreak of upper respiratory tract infection (URTI) at a kindergarten-cum-child care centre in Yuen Long.
A total of 29 pupils, comprisijng 16 boys and 13 girls aged between 2 and 5 years old, were afflicted.
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They had developed cough, runny nose, sore throat and fever since September 10, and 24 had to seek medical attention. No one required hospitalization and all are in stable condition.
The CHP appealed to everyone, particularly to staff of institutions. to stay alert and maintain strict personal and environmental hygiene.
The school has been put under medical surveillance and advised to adopt infection control measures against respiratory infections.
Since the symptoms of URTI are similar to those of Covid-19, the school has been put under compulsory testing notice as a precaution, and to exclude the possibility of a coronavirus infection.
The school has been told to suspend the holding of classes for at least five days for cleaning and to comply with the CTN.
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| One the new cases went to India on Aug 31 and returned to HK on Sept 13 |
Meanwhile, the CHP also reported three additional confirmed cases of Covid-19, which took the total number of infections to 12,153.
The newly reported cases are all imported. They include a
53-year-old male patient who traveled to
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He tested negative on arrival, but was found infected with the L452R mutant strain of the virus three days later. He remains asymptomatic.
He received two doses of the BioNTech vaccine in
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As he was in
The two others involve a 47-year-old man who flew in from Qatar and tested positive on arrival test; and 45-year-old man who came from Germany and was found infected while in quarantine at 4 Points by Sheraton in Kowloon.
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Both men are asymptomatic and each received two doses of the
AstraZeneca vaccine. The first had them in
The CHP is also investigating two overseas cases of Covid-19.
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The first is a 36-year-old male patient who flew to the
On Sept 7 he tested negative for Covid-19 and returned to HK on Sept 11 via flight CX851. His test on arrival at HK Airport tested negative but on Sept 14 his specimen was found to carry the L452R mutant strain of the coronavirus.
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He received two doses of the BioNTech vaccine in Hong Kong
on Jul 19 and Aug 9 in
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The second case involves a 16-year-old female patient who
flew to the United Kingdom on Sept 6 by flight CX 251 and tested negative for
Covid-19 two days earlier. But her specimen collected in the
She remains asymptomatic. She received two doses of the
BioNTech vaccine in
As a precaution, the building where she lived, which is Block 9, Villa Esplanada in Tsing Yi, has been put under CTN while CHP conducts an investigation.
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