There were 11 new cases in Hong Kong today, including a 43-year-old Pakistani housewife (#13045) who returned to Hong Kong. She completed the 21-day quarantine at the Silka Seaview Hotel in Yau Ma Tei on the 10th of this month and returned to the community last Friday. (14th) tested positive.
The Centre for Health Protection of the Department of Health has tracked down that the patient is suspected to be related to a nearby room and a confirmed case from Nepal.
Government expert advisor and chair professor of the Department of Microbiology of the University of Hong Kong, Yuen Kwok-yung, and staff from the Electrical and Mechanical Services Department visited the site. He pointed out that there were two connected rooms on the 4th and 12th floors, and a total of six people in the four rooms were infected.
A 43-year-old Pakistani (#13045) housewife tested positive. The patient had been quarantined at Silka Seaview Hotel in Yau Ma Tei.
(Photo by Liao Yanxiong)
A Pakistani woman on the same floor, Nepalese Ong, was diagnosed a few days earlier
A 43-year-old Pakistani housewife (#13045) was diagnosed. She and her family took flight EK609 and EK384 on December 20, arrived in Hong Kong via Dubai, and stayed at Silka Seaview Hotel in Yau Ma Tei for quarantine. She completed the quarantine and went home on the 10th of this month.
She lives in Dongmanlou, Dakeng East Village, and did not leave the unit during this period. Except for the test on the 14th (last Friday), the result was positive, which is an Omicron case.
▼1.15 Enclosure inspection of Dongmanlou, Dakengdong Village▼
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Zhang Zhujun, director of the Infectious Diseases Division of the Center for Health Protection of the Department of Health, said that the center checked the records. During the patient's stay in the quarantine hotel, there was a confirmed case in a nearby room, a 71-year-old Nepalese man (#12891) who took flight RA409 and arrived on the 4th of this month. Hong Kong, began to feel unwell on the 6th, and the test sample on the same day was positive, and the two cases were suspected to be related.
She was concerned about the newly confirmed cases, which were only found on the 26th day after arriving in Hong Kong.
Yuan Guoyong said after the inspection that the Pakistani woman lived in room 1206, while the Nepalese man lived in room 1205. There was another 48-year-old man in the same room. He tested positive on the 9th (#13045).
That is, a total of 3 people in the two rooms on the 12th floor were infected.
Extended reading: Cross-communication between connected rooms on the 4th and 12th floors of Silka Seaview Hotel
▼1.16 Yuan Guoyong went to Silka Seaview Hotel to investigate▼
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Another layer of patient genes is very similar
Zhang Zhujun continued to point out that on the other floor of the same hotel, there were 2 rooms with related confirmed cases, namely case 12893 and case 12895, who arrived in Hong Kong by AI1314 on January 2; case 12994 in the other room, which arrived in Hong Kong on December 25. Arriving in Hong Kong, the sample was positive on the 10th of this month. The whole gene analysis of the three people is very similar. "It seems that there is only a little difference."
Yuan Guoyong said that the first confirmed person lives in room 413, and there are two residents who tested positive on the 6th; #12994 is a 23-year-old man who entered Pakistan, and he lives in room 414.
That is, 3 people in the two rooms on the 4th floor were also infected.
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