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Written by: Zheng Cuibi
2021-04-24 15:34
Last update date: 2021-04-24 15:41
The new crown pneumonia epidemic continues. Hong Kong today (24th) added 3 confirmed cases, all of which are local cases.
Including a case of unknown origin. The patient was a Filipino domestic helper with a variant virus N501Y. The asymptomatic residents of the building (Kennedy Terrace, 8 Kennedy Road, Mid-Levels) were arranged to undergo a 21-day compulsory quarantine last night. , About 60 people have been admitted to the quarantine center.
In addition, there are two local cases today, both of which are related to the teacher of LOHAS Park Green English (International) Kindergarten. One of them is a 3-year-old boy. The reporter is asking the department whether this boy is a student of the school. .
There are less than 5 preliminary confirmed cases in Hong Kong today.
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The Center for Health Protection of the Department of Health announced that as of 0:00 on April 24, the center is investigating 3 newly confirmed cases. So far, the total number of cases in Hong Kong is 11,731 (including 11,730 confirmed cases and one suspected case).
The two epidemiologically related cases were related to the 31-year-old female teacher (Case No. 11711) of the LOHAS Park Green English (International) Kindergarten. The 11731th case was a 3-year-old boy. He is asymptomatic and lives in Xiao Kwai House, Kwai Chung Village, Kwai Chung. The Department of Health said he was a student. April 21 was the last school day. He was diagnosed during the quarantine period. The reporter is asking the department whether the boy is a student of the school. .
The other is a 38-year-old man (the 11729th case). He lives in Hin Ming Court in Tseung Kwan O and works as a driver of the Sai Kung District Office. He became ill on April 20 and still went to work on April 21. He was diagnosed after being examined at a community testing center.
The Centre for Health Protection said yesterday that this case was of unknown origin, but the whereabouts of the 31-year-old female teacher from the Lohas Park Kindergarten overlapped. Both had visited the Comfortable Fort Fitness Center in Tseung Kwan O, but they did not know each other.
The reporter is now inquiring with the department as to why this case is now listed as the original case.
As for the local case of unknown origin, it involved a 38-year-old female patient (case number: 11730).
She is a foreign domestic helper with no symptoms. She came to Hong Kong from the Philippines at the end of March and returned to her employer's home 21 days after quarantine. She was diagnosed at the community testing center on April 22.
The department is still investigating the source of her infection.
The center stated that since the case of unknown origin involved the N501Y variant virus strain, in order to prevent the potential risk of the spread of the N501Y variant virus strain, the centre last night did not have any symptoms on all floors of the building where the patient lived (Kennedy Terrace, 8 Kennedy Road, Mid-Levels). Residents are under compulsory quarantine, and about 60 people have been arranged to the quarantine center.
No one who lives with the foreign domestic helper has been diagnosed initially.
Since this case had lived on the 6th floor of the Ramada Harbour View Hotel in Sai Ying Pun, the centre is contacting people who stayed on the same floor of the Ramada Harbour View Hotel in Sai Ying Pun from April 4 to 7 and issued a quarantine order for a 21-day compulsory quarantine , And has issued a mandatory test announcement to those who have stayed at the hotel from March 27 to April 23 (including guests, full-time/part-time/replacement staff and visitors). The relevant persons must accept before April 25 Detection.
The department is still investigating how many people need to be quarantined and tested.
In the past 14 days (April 10-23), a total of 164 new cases were added, including 36 local cases (including 1 possible local case), of which 16 were of unknown origin.
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