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| Chuang says a waiter at the restaurant lives in Sai Wan estate where an outbreak happened earlier |
Health authorities
reported 284 new Covid-19 cases on Saturday, including 11 more linked to the
Sky Cuisine restaurant in Sheung Wan.
According to Dr Chuang
Shuk-kwan, the restaurant cluster has now grown to 41 cases, 39 of them diners
and two waiters. The customers, aged seven to 90, were from 15 different
families.
"In one family's
case, all eight members have been infected,” said Chuang.
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Environmental samples
collected in the men’s toilet and an exhaust fan in the women’s toilet were said
to have tested positive for the virus.
"The whole third
floor has around 29 tables, we haven't been able to trace all of the seating
arrangements but we know that some 17 tables were affected. They were rather
dispersed, and some tables were near the toilets," Chuang said.
One of the waiters
lives at West Terrace in Sai Wan Estate, which was earlier locked down after the
virus with a heavy viral load was found in its sewage.
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Chuang said investigators
will see if the two outbreaks are linked.
Among the new cases, six
more were detected from an outbreak at the Sun Mong snooker club in Hung Hom,
raising the total number of infections there to 12.
According to Chuang,
four of the patients had played darts at the venue on Monday, while the two
were staff members who worked at the bar.
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Around 150 people who
had been to the club on Monday evening were told to get tested for Covid after six
customers who were all there at the time tested positive.
Chuang also reported 33
imported cases, including 10 who tested positive on arrival in Hong Kong. Three
flew in Friday aboard CX288 while two were on CX495. The five others traveled
on CX170, TR980, KL819, TK070, and EK384.
Twenty-two were
detected during the seven-day hotel quarantine while the last involved a
31-year-old man who arrived on May 1 from Thailand via Singapore. He tested
positive on Thursday, the 12th day of his arrival. As he was found
to carry a heavy viral load, health authorities suspect he caught the virus in
the community.
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The ongoing genomic
sequencing detected a third case involving the Omicron BA.4 variant, said
Chuang.
The patient was a
60-year-old woman who arrived with a sore throat on Monday, after traveling
from the United States via Switzerland.
Meanwhile, Dr Sara Ho
of the Hospital Authority reported one more Covid-related death, taking the
city’s death toll to 9,147.
The deceased patient
was a 77-year-old woman who had no vaccination record.
Ho said 755 are currently
being treated at public hospitals and various treatment facilities. They
include one in critical condition and three in serious condition.
In the past 24 hours,
a total of 80 patients had recovered and were discharged from hospitals.
