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Written by: Ouyang Dehao Huang Yongyu
2021-05-04 17:19
Last update date: 2021-05-04 17:30
The new crown pneumonia epidemic in Hong Kong is showing signs of rebound. After three consecutive zero infections in Japan, the Centre for Health Protection announced today (4th) 4 new confirmed cases, one of which is a "probably not landed case".
The patient was a Filipino domestic helper at Block R of Allway Gardens in Tsuen Wan. He arrived in Hong Kong from the Philippines on March 31 by flight PR300.
She returned to her employer’s home after undergoing hotel quarantine and was responsible for taking her employer’s children to play and class. She has visited many places, including Tsuen Wan Catholic Kindergarten, Discovery Park, Allway Gardens Park, and Yee in Kwai Fong Metroplaza. The Children’s Music Practice Center, Allway Garden Tianyun Piano Shop, and Allway Wellcome.
The patient was found out by the recent mandatory testing program for foreign domestic helpers.
Since the patient brought the N501Y variant and lived in Block R of Allway Gardens for a period of time, all residents of Block R of Allway Gardens are classified as close contacts and must be sent to the quarantine center.
After the quarantine, go to the Immigration Department to obtain an ID card for medical examination at Causeway Bay Clinic
Zhang Zhujun, director of the Infectious Diseases Division of the Centre for Health Protection, said today that one confirmed case was tentatively designated as a "probable local case" because it could not be classified, and it may also be an imported case.
The patient, a 44-year-old Filipino domestic helper, arrived in Hong Kong from the Philippines on flight PR300 on March 31 and was quarantined at the Dorsett Wanchai Hotel from March 31 to April 21.
After receiving the hotel quarantine on the 21st, the patient was picked up by the intermediary on April 21 and went to the Wan Chai Immigration Department building on the 8th floor to obtain an ID card and went to a clinic in Causeway Bay for physical examination. The stay in the two places was not long.
Later, she went to Block R of Allway Gardens where her employer lived on the same day.
Been to Kwai Fong Yip's Music Center and Tian Yun Piano Shop
Patients are more responsible for taking their employer’s children to play and attend classes, including the Tsuen Wan Catholic Kindergarten, Discovery Park, Allway Garden Park, Yip’s Children’s Music Practice Centre in Kwai Fong Metroplaza, Allway Garden Tianyun Piano Shop, and Once to Allway Wellcome.
▼5.2 A large number of foreign domestic helpers line up for mandatory inspection at Victoria Park▼
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During the quarantine period, all-negative patients were detected by mandatory testing
Zhang Zhujun also pointed out that the results of the patient’s hotel test were all negative, and until the recent mandatory test on May 2nd, the result of the private laboratory was indeterminate at first, but the test was positive by the public laboratory and the CT value was very high, namely The amount of virus is very low.
As for the two samples from the patient after admission, the nasopharyngeal swab was indeterminate, but the sputum sample was positive.
Subsequently, the sputum sample from Tuen Mun Hospital this morning was tested by the Department of Health and found to be a variant of N501Y, while E484K is temporarily unknown.
Since the patient’s virus was N501Y, he had travel history, and had a positive anti-system after admission, it was excluded as an imported case.
However, because the patient stays in the community for a long time, it is necessary to observe whether it is related to other sources, the time of onset of people close to him, the rise and fall of the CT value after admission, and then determine whether it is a local case. It is tentatively designated as a "possible local case."
Young masters studying in Catholic Kindergarten must suspend classes
Because the patient brought the N501Y variant and lived in Block R of Allway Gardens for a period of time, all residents of Block R of Allway Gardens are classified as close contacts and need to be sent to the quarantine center. Arrangements will be made later.
And for Catholic kindergartens with children who live with them, schools must also suspend classes and compulsory testing.
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