New crown pneumonia | 3 more cases of imported Japanese cargo ship without injections confirmed with variant virus

The Center for Health Protection announced today (3) 3 new imported cases, including the diagnosis of an unvaccinated crew member on the Japanese cargo ship GLORY SKY. There were about 20 crew members on board, and all crew members did not disembark after arriving in Hong Kong. No local staff have ever boarded the ship. The three new cases today all carried the L452R variant virus. One patient developed cough and runny nose. In addition, fewer than 5 cases were initially diagnosed today.

The Centre for Health Protection is investigating three new imported cases. So far, there have been 12,449 cases in Hong Kong. A total of 50 imported cases have been reported in the past 14 days.

3 new imported cases were added today.

(Reuters)

The new cases all involved infections of variant virus strains, involving one man and two women, aged 23 to 51 years.

One of the cases, 12453, was a 51-year-old crew member who arrived in Hong Kong via the cargo ship Glory Sky from Japan on December 1 and was asymptomatic. The samples collected on the ship tested positive.

Preliminary epidemiological investigations revealed that the ship came to Hong Kong for cargo loading and unloading. There were about 20 crew members on board. None of them landed ashore after entering Hong Kong waters, and no local staff had ever boarded the ship after arriving in Hong Kong.

The center will send the confirmed crew members to the hospital for isolation and treatment. The rest of the crew members on the cargo ship must stay on board for quarantine and undergo testing in accordance with current arrangements.

Case 12452 is a 23-year-old woman who arrived in Hong Kong from South Korea on December 1 on OZ721 and was asymptomatic. The patient had been vaccinated with Fubital vaccine in South Korea and was diagnosed at the airport when she arrived in Hong Kong.

Case 12454 is a 28-year-old woman who arrived in Hong Kong from the United States on SQ007 on December 1, but she developed cough and runny nose before boarding on November 25. The patient had been vaccinated in Hong Kong in June and July this year. Bitex vaccine.

Since she had stayed in Hong Kong during the 21-day incubation period, Anjian Building, Andian Village, Lam Tin, where she lived, had to be enclosed for compulsory testing last night.

She works at Citibank, 10th Floor, Wheelock House, 20 Pedder Street, Central, and her last work date is November 19, and her workplace has been subject to mandatory inspection.

▼12.2 Enclosed residents of Anjian Building and forced inspection ▼

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In addition, the center also reminded the relevant specified persons in Block 4 of New Jade Garden, Chai Wan, to comply with the mandatory testing announcement tomorrow (4th) for testing.

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