The Centre for Health Protection of the Department of Health yesterday (30th) for a suspected case of new coronary pneumonia infection involving the Omicron variant virus, closed the area of Wing Chak Building, Chak On Village, No. 1 Chak On Road, Shek Kip Mei.
The government issued a statement at 7:47 this morning, stating that mandatory testing operations in the area have been completed and no confirmed cases have been found.
The statement stated that as of 1 am today, 916 people have been tested and no confirmed cases have been found.
In addition, the government has also sent personnel to visit about 550 households in the "restricted area", of which 48 households did not answer the door during the process, and the government will take measures to follow up.
From about 7 am today, people who have been tested in Shek Kip Mei’s "restricted area" can provide the prescribed personnel After personal data, leave the "restricted area" through the designated exit.
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The authorities announced yesterday that a 76-year-old male patient living in the above address was initially diagnosed. He was a non-resident family member who was diagnosed earlier and was exempted from quarantine by Cathay Pacific but who went out illegally (case 12611). He was tested on December 28. The result was negative.
After case 12611 was diagnosed, the male patient was sent to the Penny's Bay Quarantine Center on December 28 for quarantine. The test result of the sample taken on December 29 was initially positive, with a Ct value greater than 30, no symptoms, with N501Y and T478K mutations Virus strain.
The patient is a retired person who has not travelled abroad recently and has received two doses of Fubitai vaccine.
The male patient, case 12611, and another woman had lunch at Wangyue Building, G25 Festival Walk, Kowloon Tong, from about 1:30 to 3 pm on December 27.
The woman was sent to the Penny's Bay Quarantine Center on December 28 for quarantine. The sample taken on December 29 tested negative.
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