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Written by: Huang Yongyu
2020-03-12 23:31
Last updated: 2020-03-12 23:40The outbreak of a new type of coronavirus (commonly known as Wuhan pneumonia) continues. The Centre for Health Protection announced tonight (12th) that there were two new confirmed cases in Hong Kong, namely 131 confirmed cases and 1 suspected case. The 132nd patient was a 31-year-old man who returned to Hong Kong from Manila on March 8. He developed symptoms on the same day. He went to the Hong Kong University Clinic yesterday for medical treatment. The 131st patient was the husband of a 31-year-old woman in the 130th confirmed case.
The Centre for Health Protection announced tonight (12th) that there were two new confirmed cases in Hong Kong. The 132nd case was a 31-year-old man living in Xining Court, Xining Street, Kennedy Town, with a long-term illness. He had fever, muscle pain and diarrhea since March 8. He sought medical treatment from the University of Hong Kong Clinic yesterday, and then went to the Accident and Emergency Department of Queen Mary Hospital. A deep throat saliva sample was confirmed to be positive for the new coronavirus disease today and has been arranged for treatment in Tuen Mun Hospital. The condition is stable.
Have stayed in Boston, USA
He traveled abroad during the incubation period, from February 22 to March 1 in Boston, the United States; from Boston via Tokyo, Japan, to Manila, Philippines on March 2, he returned on March 8 by Cathay Pacific CX930 Arrived in Hong Kong. His common wife has no symptoms and will be arranged for quarantine.
The 132nd case was a 31-year-old man living in Xining Court, Xining Street, Kennedy Town. (Screenshot of Google Street View)
The 131st case was a 37-year-old man, the husband of a female patient diagnosed in the 130th case yesterday, living in his parents' apartment at iPlace, Castle Peak Road, Kwai Chung. He started a fever on March 3 and today confirmed a positive response to the new coronavirus. The condition is stable now. The one-and-a-half-year-old son of the two who developed runny nose has been sent to Princess Margaret Hospital for treatment. His parents-in-law did not show symptoms and have been arranged for quarantine.
The patient returned to Hong Kong from the United Kingdom on February 29 with his wife and children, and took the Cathay Pacific flight CX250. On the flight, together with the two cases confirmed earlier (the 114th case and a male patient diagnosed in Thailand), there were four confirmed patients on the same flight.
Zhang Zhujun, director of the Center for Infectious Diseases of the Centre for Defense, said today that after learning about the first three confirmed cases, he has doubts about the flight or the local area of London. He has written to the British authorities and airlines for more information. Details.
A 37-year-old man and a 31-year-old woman diagnosed live in a home on iPlace, Castle Peak Road, Kwai Chung. (Photo by Lao Xianliang)
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The Centre for Health Protection also stated that contact tracking was being carried out on a confirmed case outside Hong Kong. The case involved a 55-year-old female patient diagnosed in Beijing. She had taken an economy class on Cathay Pacific CX857, took off from Seattle, arrived in Hong Kong on March 9, and then transferred to Cathay Dragon Dragon KA900 (economy class) on the same day. Hong Kong to Beijing. The center urges those who have been in the same cabin of the above two flights to call the CHP hotline.
Food and Health Bureau, Health Protection Center, Wuhan Pneumonia New Crown Pneumonia Department of Health