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| World-Wide House management says it has already disinfected the entire building |
A Filipina who tested positive for Covid-19 on Apr 10 had visited
a bank in World-Wide two days earlier, shortly after arriving in Hong Kong from
Manila
This was revealed by the Hong Kong Health Department’s Centre
for Health Protection at its daily press conference today, Apr 14.
CHP’s Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan did not name the building, but she
confirmed that the woman in case 981, was on compulsory home quarantine when
she went to a bank in the place.
CHP records earlier showed the 38-year-old woman had left for the
The woman was asymptomatic but a deep-throat sample she
submitted to the AsiaWorld-Expo on arrival yielded a positive result two days
later.
She was supposed to go on mandatory 14-day quarantine in her
house in Constellation Cove, Taipo, after leaving the airport.
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Replying to a reporter’s question about the patient visiting
World-Wide Plaza
“A (deep throat saliva) sample (from the woman) was left at
AsiaExpo and she returned home for quarantine but she went to a bank before
returning home.”
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World-Wide House management said it was advised by CHP
afterwards about the woman’s visit on Apr 8, but did not specify the place she
had been to, whether it was the office block or the adjacent shopping arcade.
A female staff member said that as a result, they circulated
an advisory to all the shop owners and tenants on Apr 12 advising them about
the woman’s visit, and assuring them that there would be deep cleaning and
disinfection.
The staff said the offices were disinfected earlier that
day, and the shops, during the night, after they had closed down for the day.
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Some shopkeepers said the news about the unwanted visit had
again spooked their business with very few people in the mall today after
strong sales on Sunday.
Meanwhile, there Hongkongers were the only confirmed cases
reported today, the lowest for more than a month, and the third day in a row
that the daily tally had been below 10. The total number of confirmed cases is
now 1,012.
Two of them are students, a 16-year-old who flew in from the
United States , and a
22-year-old who came from Britain U.S.
A fourth Hong Kong man, which local media identified as tenor
Warren Mok, had tested positive in Thailand
earlier, but returned a negative result shortly before retuning to Hong Kong .
Chuang said that if Thailand
had listed him as one of its Covid-19 patients, then he will not be included in
Hong Kong ’s list even if he continues his
treatment here.
Chuang said the first two of today’s cases left deep throat
saliva samples at the AsiaWorld Expo testing center when they returned
separately from the US
But the third case, the student in the UK
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Despite the big drop in the number of cases, health
officials have continued to caution the the public against complacency.
“We have seen general improvement in recent days, that means people are less worried now. But it
is no time to let our guard down, it is still subject to further fluctuation,”
Wong said. “We have to do everything we can to protect ourselves to prevent
infection,” Chuang said.
The CHP said 13 patients remained critical and 37 more had
been discharged from hospital.
