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Lan Kwai Fong Hotel's one-room toilet exhaust fan was positive.

2022-05-21T11:09:54.531Z


A couple who arrived in Hong Kong from San Francisco, USA, after completing quarantine at the "Lan Kwai Fong Hotel@Kowloon Fong" in Central, tested positive at the community testing center and had the Omicron BA.2.12.1 variant virus. Centre for Health Protection of the Department of Health


A couple who arrived in Hong Kong from San Francisco, USA, after completing quarantine at the "Lan Kwai Fong Hotel@Kowloon Fong" in Central, tested positive at the community testing center and had the Omicron BA.2.12.1 variant virus.

The Centre for Health Protection of the Department of Health said today (21st) that the team investigated the Lan Kwai Fong Hotel yesterday (20th) and took 15 environmental samples, including a toilet exhaust fan in Room 3304 (the previous Nepalese father-son case room). Environmental samples tested positive, an air purifier sample in the same room was uncertain, and the remaining 13 samples were all negative.


As for the American couple who arrived in Hong Kong living in Room 3204, the Department of Health initially learned that the female patient had symptoms on the 10th day after her arrival in Hong Kong, but she did not seek medical treatment. During the time of her diagnosis, she was more active in the community and stayed in several restaurants for a short period of time. With the exception of masks, there is a chance of community transmission.


▼On May 20, Lan Kwai Fong Hotel @ Jiurufang exploded the BA.2.12.1 new variant virus epidemic▼


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Government expert advisor and chair professor of the Department of Microbiology of the University of Hong Kong, Yuen Kwok-yung, and Director of the Infectious Diseases Division of the Centre for Health Protection, Department of Health, Zhang Zhujun, as well as staff from the Environmental Protection Department, the Electrical and Mechanical Services Department and the Buildings Department visited Lan Kwai Fong Hotel @ Jiurufang for investigation yesterday. It was announced that among the environmental samples collected yesterday, the sample of the toilet exhaust fan in Room 3304 was positive for the new coronavirus, and the sample of the air purifier in the same room was indeterminate. The samples from Room (US Arrival Couple Room) and Room 3303 were both negative.

As for the positive sample of the exhaust fan in the toilet of Room 3304, Ou Jiarong, chief doctor of the Infectious Diseases Division of the Center for Health Protection of the Department of Health, pointed out that it was expected because there were two cases in the room, no mask was worn in the room, and the virus was discharged. The contamination of the air fan and the difficulty in sterilizing the air fan resulted in a positive result.

Ou Jiarong also pointed out that the 64-year-old female patient among the confirmed cases of the couple who arrived in Hong Kong from the United States developed symptoms on the tenth day after returning to her Tam Kung Temple Road residence after completing the quarantine at the "Lan Kwai Fong Hotel@Kowloon Fong", but according to preliminary understanding He did not seek medical attention until he left a sample at the community testing center on the 14th and tested positive for the virus.

Ou Jiarong said that the woman had a high viral load and a CT value of 15. She also had activities in the community from the 10th to the 15th. She visited a restaurant. Although it was only a short stay, the removal of masks was involved. There is a risk of transmission.

For the sake of prudence, the Department of Health has included the mandatory inspections wherever she goes, and citizens who visit at the same time are required to undergo nucleic acid testing.

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Latest|A sample of a toilet exhaust fan in a Lan Kwai Fong hotel is the source of the transmission of positive materials. The Lan Kwai Fong hotel is now vertically spreading. McDonald's Epidemic|BA.2.12.1 New Variant Virus First Entered the Community

Source: hk1

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