By The SUN
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| Block A of Siu Hei Court in Tuen Mun is where the infected cleaner is said to live |
The government announced an overnight lockdown of a building in Tuen Mun a few hours ago, saying a preliminary positive case with a mutant strain detected today had lived there.
A subsequent press release said the patient is a 64-year-old male cleaner at the
He had two doses of the Sinovac vaccine on Jul 10 and Aug 10 and because of the nature of his work he had to undergo frequent testing. Between Dec 2 and 20 he was tested a total of ten times, and all the results were negative.
But in a test conducted on Dec 22 at the airport he tested preliminary positive with a Ct value of about 27 to 32, indicating a recent infection. He developed symptoms on the same day.
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Further testing revealed that his specimen carried N501Y and T478K mutations, which led the Centre for Health Protection to suspect that he carries the Omicron variant. But a whole genome sequencing is needed to confirm this suspicion.
A preliminary investigation revealed that he has no travel history and mainly stayed inside the storeroom inside the toilet during work and had been in the toilet with the preliminary positive cases at the same time.
The CHP visited the airport Thursday and collected environmental samples from the storeroom, a changing rool and a restroom that the patient had used.
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If he is confirmed to be a local case with unknown source, he will break
The building where he resided, identified as On Hei House Block A, Siu Hei Court will be locked down until 7am tomorrow, and all residents tested.
They will be tested four times more on subsequent days as part of stricter measures put in place to prevent the highly contagious Omicron variant from entering the community.
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| The 2 new patients arrived from Europe and Africa |
Earlier, the Centre for Health Protection reported two new imported cases of Covid-19 with the N501Y mutant strain, which most likely indicate they have the highly contagious Omicron variant.
The new patients include a 27-year-old woman who came from
the
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The other patient is a 36-year-old air crew who had been to
The two brought
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As of this writing, there has been no update on the number
of Omicron patients found in
As of yesterday, a total of 34 new arrivals from abroad had already tested positive for what the World Health Organization has listed as a “variant of concern”. Six who arrived yesterday carried the N501Y variant, and were likely to add to the total tally.
