In response to a preliminary confirmed case of new coronary pneumonia, the Centre for Health Protection of the Department of Health yesterday (30th) closed the area for testing at Block A of Haidu Building, 7-11 Belcher's Street, Kennedy Town.
The government announced at 7:35 this morning that it had completed compulsory testing in the district. The test results of a small number of samples are still being verified, and the test results of the remaining residents are all negative.
The statement said that as of 1:30 am today, about 195 residents have been tested. Among them, the test results of a small number of samples are still being verified, and the test results of the remaining residents are all negative.
In addition, the government has also sent personnel to visit about 95 households in the "restricted area". About 20 of them were not answered during the process, including households that may have been quarantined or quarantined. It is also possible that some units are vacant. If there is no detailed information in this regard, measures will be taken to follow up.
Starting from about 7:30 am today, those who have been tested in the designated "restricted area" in Kennedy Town, if they can produce a short message of negative test results or wear a bracelet to prove that they have undergone compulsory testing, can ask the prescribed After providing personal information, the personnel leave the "restricted area" through the designated exit.
The authorities announced yesterday that a 47-year-old man was initially diagnosed. He was a crew member and went to the United States via flight CX840 on December 22. He tested negative for the virus on December 20 before leaving Hong Kong.
As of December 25, he and his colleagues from another imported case of 12610 (confirmed to have the mutant virus strain Omicron) arrived in Hong Kong via flight CX843. Upon arrival, he took samples at the Temporary Sample Collection Center at Hong Kong International Airport and tested the virus. The result was negative.
The patient was subsequently subjected to medical surveillance and periodic mandatory testing in accordance with relevant exemption regulations, and the test result on December 27 was negative.
After case 12610 was diagnosed, he was sent to the Penny's Bay Quarantine Center for quarantine on December 28. The test result on December 29 was initially positive, with a Ct value of about 25, no symptoms, and N501Y mutant virus strain.
He has been vaccinated with three doses of Forbitux in Hong Kong.
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