The Centre for Health Protection of the Department of Health announced yesterday (16th) a case of new coronary pneumonia infection. The patient was suspected of carrying the Omicron mutant virus strain. The authorities closed the area of Cheung Hing Building, 44-48 Pitt Street, Yau Ma Tei last night.
The government issued a statement at 7 o'clock this morning, stating that mandatory testing operations in the area have been completed and no confirmed cases have been found.
The statement stated that the government set up temporary sampling stations in the "restricted areas" yesterday, and required the subjects to go to the sampling stations before midnight today to collect samples of combined swabs from the nasal cavity and throat and test for the 2019 coronavirus.
As of midnight today, about 160 residents have been tested and no confirmed cases have been found.
The government has also sent personnel to visit about 140 households in the "restricted area", of which about 50 households were not answered during the process, including households that may have been quarantined or quarantined. It is also possible that some units are vacant. The government does not have this. For detailed information, measures will be taken to follow up.
Starting at about 7 am today, persons who have been tested in the designated "restricted area" in Yau Ma Tei who can produce a short message of negative test results or wear a bracelet to prove that they have undergone compulsory testing may provide their personal information to the prescribed personnel. , Leave the "restricted area" via the designated exit.
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The infection case announced by the Centre for Health Protection yesterday was a 36-year-old crew member who tested negative in Hong Kong on December 9 and left Hong Kong for the United States on December 11 and flew from the United States on December 13 CX2071 returned to Hong Kong.
When the patient arrived in Hong Kong, the test result of a sample taken at the temporary sample collection center of Hong Kong International Airport was negative.
The patients were subsequently subject to medical supervision and regular mandatory testing in accordance with relevant exemption regulations.
According to the information he provided, he stayed at home all the time except for buying food in the community briefly the day before and taking samples from mobile sampling stations for testing.
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