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| 30 people who were at Sky Cuisine on May 7 have tested positive for Covid |
Health authorities reported a new coronavirus outbreak on Friday, involving a restaurant on Des Voeux Road in Sheung Wan in which at least 30 of the more than 200 people who dined there on Saturday have been found infected.
Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan of the Centre for Health Protection said 29 diners who were at Sky Cuisine between 6pm and 11pm on Saturday, May 7, as well as one staff member, have tested positive for Covid.
The customers are aged between eight and 117 years old.
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Chuang said a compulsory testing notice will be issued to all diners and about 50 staff members who were at the restaurant during the relevant times.
An investigation is also underway into how the virus had spread in the restaurant.
"We’re still interviewing the patients and their family contacts. So far, we understand most of them were sitting on the third floor of that restaurant. And we’re still ascertaining the distribution of the cases, the tables, and the seating. We understand there are more than 10 tables involved so far,” she said.
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Meanwhile, an overnight lockdown of Sai Wan Estate in
Among the new cases, 16 live in West Terrace where the five earlier cases also reside; four in East Terrace and two in Central Terrace.
One resident was found not to have complied with the CTN, and was issued a compulsory testing notice.
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| 22 infected residents were found during the lockdown on Sai Wan Estate |
Separately, two more customers of Sun Mong Snooker club in Hung Hom tested positive for the coronavirus, taking the number of infections there to six.
Chuang said investigators found the coronavirus on a snooker table, and told management to suspend operations so the club can be disinfected.
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More than 150 people who visited the venue between 5pm and 12 midnight on Monday have been told to get tested.
The new infections were among 298 new Covid cases reported today, which also included 21 imported from abroad.
Six of the imported cases were detected at the airport, 14 tested positive during the seven-day hotel quarantine, while the last was found infected on the 12th day.
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The city’s caseload from the fifth wave now stands at 1,195,332.
Dr Sara Ho of the Hospital Authority reported three more Covid deaths, involving two men aged 80 and 84, and a woman aged 86.
They took the death toll from the Omicron outbreak to 9,146.
