2 Filipinos knocked down by bus in Central, one in critical state

By Daisy CL Mandap 

Police clarified that the second incident happened last night in front of World-Wide House

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Two Filipinos, one man and one woman, were hit by a bus on Des Voeux Road Central right in front of WorldWide House at about 12 midnight last night , December 5.

According to the police, the 54-year-old man was conscious when taken to hospital, but the 33-year-old woman was unconscious. Both suffered head injuries.

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Consul Paul Saret, head of the assistance to nationals section of the Consulate, said the woman remains in intensive care at Queen Mary Hospital.

“She is intubated,” said Saret, quoting hospital sources.

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He also said the case has just been reported to the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration, which is now trying to locate the woman’s employer.

No report has been made to the Consulate regarding the man, so it is not known if he is a resident or a domestic worker.

    

Video of earlier incident shows an unknown Filipina being carried onto stretcher 

(from Juvy Lyn Morales)

While the police say they are still investigating the case, Consul Saret reminded everyone in the community to take care when crossing streets in Central, particularly Des Voeux Road, where several traffic accidents involving Filipinos have been reported over the year.

“Please only cross at the designated pedestrian crossings, and only when the light is green,” Consul Saret says. “A lot of these accidents happened because our compatriots were jaywalking.”

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Just two Sundays ago, a Filipino man, apparently drunk, was also knocked down by a bus near the exact place where this latest  incident happened.

Police record shows KMB busno111 was traveling west at about 11:57pm when it hit the two victims at no 19 Des Vouex Road Central, the address of WorldWide House.

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Bystanders called the police, and they came along with paramedics.

The incident caused some confusion earlier, as a Filipina DH took videos of another woman being loaded onto an ambulance at about 1:10pm earlier Sunday. 

Police later said they did not have information on this incident, even though the video shows officers were around taking information from bystanders.

Two Filipinas are shown on a separate video loading stuff onto a black backpack apparently belonging to the woman victim, and turning it over to officers. It is not clear if they were the woman’s companions.

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In the later incident, both victims were taken to Queen Mary Hospital while the 58-year-old driver surnamed Yeung was held for questioning. 

Police denied issuing any statement that the driver had lost control of the vehicle. The spokeswoman said their investigation is ongoing.

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Other reports said the impact of the crash was so severe the left side of the bus’ windshield was shattered. The vehicle had to be towed away from the scene for inspection.

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Six more ship crew among 9 imported cases today

By The SUN 

The CHP says 7 crew members of Glory Sky are now confirmed to have Covid-19

Six more crewmen of the cargo ship Glory Sky, one of them a Filipino, and three other imported cases were reported today, Dec 5, by Hong Kong health officials as the latest coronavirus patients carrying the highly contagious L452R variant.

The Filipino seafarer, 45, received two doses of BioNTech vaccine in the Philippines on Jun 8 and Jul 8 while one of his colleagues, who is 56 years old, received the single dose vaccine from Johnson&Johnson on Aug 27 in Poland.

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It was not known if the rest of the crew were vaccinated.

The Centre for Health Protection said the nine additional confirmed cases, all male aged 25 to 62, had taken the number of cases in Hong Kong to 12,462 so far, including one probable case.

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Today’s six crew members arrived in Hong Kong from Japan on Dec 1 on the cargo ship Glory Sky. They were aboard the vessel when a crewman developed symptoms and was tested positive for Covid-19 with the L452R mutant strain on Friday.

The CHP collected specimens of 20 other Glory Sky crewmen undergoing quarantine on the vessel on Dec 3 and the six new patients tested positive on Saturday.

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The remaining crewmen of the cement carrier will continue to be tested in accordance with current regulations during their quarantine period on board the ship.

The three other new patients reported today arrived in Hong Kong from Cyprus and the United Kingdom, the UK, and Pakistan, which are all Group A or high-risk countries.

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The 48-year-old passenger had symptoms when he arrived from Cyprus and the UK via VS206 on Dec 3. He tested positive on his arrival test at the Hong Kong International Airport. He received 2 doses of BioNTech in Hong Kong on May 20 and Jun 10.

The other two new patients tested positive during quarantine.

The first was a 25-year-old who arrived from London on Dec 1 via CX218. He developed symptoms on Dec 3 while in quarantine at Dorsett Tsuen Wan. He received two doses of BioNTech jabs on May 6 and May 28.

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The second arrived from Pakistan on flight EK384 via the United Arab Emirates on Nov 12 and stayed at Silka Far East Hotel in Tsuen Wan. He received two doses of Sinopharm vaccine in Pakistan on Jul 27 and Aug 26.

A total of 53 cases have been reported in the past 14 days to Dec 4 and all of them are imported cases.

An 80-year-old man from Canada is in critical condition in North Lantau Hospital

The Hospital Authority said a total of 55 confirmed patients are confined in the North Lantau Hospital Hong Kong Infection Control Centre and the HA Infectious Disease Centre. 

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Among those patients, an 80-year-old man who arrived from Canada on Nov 24 is in critical condition while the remaining are in stable condition.

The elderly patient was asymptomatic when he tested positive on his third-day sample while under quarantine at Metropark Hotel in Kowloon. He received two doses of the BioNTech vaccine in Canada on May 16 and Jul 21.

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The CHP’s epidemiological investigations and contact tracing on the confirmed cases are ongoing.

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Lone Filipino among Hong Kong’s new 17 AIDS patients

By Vir B. Lumicao

The Filipino man acquired HIV and AIDS through bisexual contact

A Filipino man was among 105 new HIV and 17 new AIDS (acquired immunity deficiency syndrome) cases in Hong Kong for the third quarter this year, the Centre for Health Protection said Friday, Dec 3.

Responding to a query from The SUN, a CHP spokesman said the Filipino patient acquired AIDS through bisexual contact.

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Sexual contact remained the major route of HIV transmission among infected Filipinos, the spokesman said. He suggested using condoms consistently and properly to reduce the risk of acquiring HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.

The single new HIV/AIDS case among the estimated 200,000 Filipinos in Hong Kong in the past quarter was a big improvement from the second quarter, when six out of 131 new HIV and three out of 26 new AIDS cases came from the community.

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This past quarter, an additional 105 cases of HIV infection were reported to the CHP, taking the cumulative total reported locally to 11,122 since 1984.

The CHP said that of the 105 HIV cases involving 85 males and 20 females reported in the quarter, 49 acquired the infection via homosexual or bisexual contact and 25 via heterosexual contact.

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The transmission routes of the remaining 31 cases have yet to be determined due to incomplete information when they were reported, the CHP said.

The new cases were mainly reported by three major sources: public hospitals, clinics and laboratories, which listed 47 cases; the Department of Health’s Social Hygiene Clinics, which handled 16 cases; and AIDS service organizations, which attended to 15 cases.

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Also, 72 of the HIV-infected people have already received HIV specialist services from the DH or the Hospital Authority.

In the third quarter, 17 new AIDS cases were reported, of which 10 cases were attributed to homosexual or bisexual contact and six were due to heterosexual contact.

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The transmission route of the remaining case had yet to be determined. In the third quarter, the most common AIDS-defining illness was Pneumocystis pneumonia, a kind of fungal chest infection.

Since 1985, a cumulative total of 2,297 confirmed AIDS cases have been reported in Hong Kong.

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The spokesman said that although HIV could lead to full-blown AIDS, lifelong treatment with antiretroviral drugs could prevent this happening.

He said HIV treatment also improves the quality of life and survival rate of HIV/AIDS patients, the extent of which depends on how early antiretroviral treatment is initiated.

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Notably, people with HIV who achieve sustained viral suppression to an undetectable level will no longer transmit the virus through sex.

He urged members of the public with a history of unsafe sex to take an HIV antibody test early. They can call the DH’s AIDS Hotline, 2780 2211, to arrange a free, anonymous and confidential HIV test. HIV-positive people should seek specialist care as soon as possible, the spokesman said.

The public may visit the following pages for more information: the DH’s Virtual AIDS Office (www.aids.gov.hk), the Red Ribbon Centre (www.rrc.gov.hk), the AIDS Hotline website (www.27802211.com) and the Gay Men HIV Information website (www.21171069.gov.hk).

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HK reports 4 new Covid-19 cases

By The SUN                     

3 of the 4 new cases tested positive on their arrival at HK Intl Airport

An Indonesian domestic helper who was under quarantine at Rambler Hotel in Tsing Yi is among four imported cases of Covid-19 reported by the Centre for Health Protection today, Dec 4.

All of the patients were fully vaccinated and carried the L452R variant of the coronavirus.

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The 30-year-old Indonesian arrived in Hong Kong on Nov 28 via flight GA676 and tested positive on her fifth-day sample. She was asymptomatic.

The three others all arrived on Dec 2 and tested positive on their arrival tests at HK International Airport.

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They include a 17-year-old male patient who came from the United Kingdom, via flight CX 252, a 62-year-old man who flew in from the UK via Qatar on QR 818, and a 28-year-old woman who took the same Qatar Air flight but came from the United States.

The teenager was asymptomatic, but the two other patients had symptoms when they arrived. All were fully vaccinated.

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They took Hong Kong’s total number of Covid-19 cases to 12,452 confirmed and one probable case.

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For case details and contact tracing information, please see the Covid-19 thematic website: www.coronavirus.gov.hk.

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DH who left baby ward at MTR station to steal chocolates jailed 5 months

By Vir B. Lumicao 

The Filipina's young wards were left unattended in Hang Hau MTR station for about 23 minutes 

A Filipina domestic helper who admitted leaving her year-old baby ward and her sister, 9, in an MTR station in Tseung Kwan O in September to steal chocolates in a nearby shop was jailed for a total of five months on Friday, Dec 4.

Defendant Maritess B. Grospe, 38, bowed her head and sobbed as Kwun Tong Court Magistrate Bina Chainrai rejected the defense counsel’s appeal for a lenient sentence.

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The lawyer, citing a background report that Chainrai called for before sentencing the defendant, said the woman committed the crime because she was in debt paying off the medical expenses of her sick mother.

But the magistrate responded in anger. “She left the one-year-old child inside the MTR station to go and steal chocolates. How can that be correct?” Chainrai asked.

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The lawyer replied his client was remorseful for her action, saying she, in fact, loves and cares for the baby boy and her 9-year-old sister. “She understands that what she has done can’t be excused,” the lawyer added.

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Chainrai sentenced Grospe to two weeks in jail for stealing three packs of pistachio at a Best Mart 360 shop in MCP Discovery, Tseung Kwan O, and four weeks for taking many other items including 85 packs of chocolate and six packs of luncheon meat in a second BM 360 store at The Lane mall in Hang Hau, TKO.

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She ordered the two- and four-week sentences to run concurrently. Then she imposed a four-month sentence on Grospe for leaving the children in the station. This was to run consecutively with the theft sentence, hence a total of four months and four weeks.

The prosecution said a staff in the BM380 shop at MCP Discovery noticed at 10:40am that three pistachio packs were gone from the shelves with no payment recorded.

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She checked the CCTV footage and saw the defendant taking the pistachios worth $504 on the morning of Sept 8, then left without paying. They reported the incident. 

At 1pm on the same day, a staff in another BM380 shop at The Lane in Hang Hau noticed that several items were missing from the shelves without payment records.

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She checked the CCTV footage and saw the defendant take the items for the shelves, put them in her recycle bag and left without paying. The theft was reported.

The defendant returned to the store just as the police arrived and she was identified by the staff around 4pm. Police arrested her.

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During questioning, the police learned that the two children were left at the Hang Hau MTR station.

The police went to search for the children and found them at 4:15pm. They had been left unattended for about 23 minutes.

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