Central D'Aguilar Street bar Zentral hits 11, recruits basketball coach to teach wave and 6 students

[Lan Kwai Fong/Zentral/California Building/Pok Oi Hospital Tang Peiqiong Middle School] The epidemic continues to hover in the low three digits. The Centre for Health Protection said today (28th) that there were 270 more confirmed cases in Hong Kong and another cluster outbreak.

At the bar "Zentral" on the fourth floor of the California Building, D'Aguilar Street, Lan Kwai Fong, Central, among the guests who patronized from 11:00 p.m. on Saturday (21st) to the early morning of the next day, there were 11 drinkers who did not know each other "Zhong Zhao" .

The bar has been included in the compulsory testing list. The center will wait for the on-site inspection together with the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department. Since some of the alcoholics involved, the travel records of Anxin showed that they left the bar at 5:00 in the morning, and will investigate whether there is any violation.

The group is more suspected of multi-generational transmission.

One of the 23-year-old male drinkers who contracted the virus was a part-time basketball coach. On the day of his illness, he taught a basketball training class at Deng Peiqiong Middle School of Yuen Long Pok Oi Hospital. Among the 30 students in the training class, 6 were diagnosed and the remaining 24 were Students listed as close contacts will be subject to home quarantine, and schools will be disinfected.

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Au Jiarong, chief physician of the Infectious Diseases Division of the Centre for Health Protection, said that a cluster outbreak occurred at the bar "Zentral" on the 4th floor of California Tower, 32 D'Aguilar Street, Central. A total of 11 cases have been recorded so far, including 6 males and 5 females, aged between 17 and 17. to 29 years old.

They all visited from 11:00 pm last Saturday (21st) to 5:00 am the next day, that is, the first weekend after the bar reopened. They took off their masks to drink and chat. All 11 patients developed mild symptoms. The date of onset is: Between last Friday (20th) and Thursday (26th).

Au Ka-wing said that in response to a cluster outbreak, the bars involved will be included in the mandatory testing list, and information on a "vaccine pass" will be obtained for follow-up, and will join the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department and the Electrical and Mechanical Services Department to conduct an on-site inspection.

23-year-old male alcoholic who was infected with the epidemic became ill after teaching as a part-time basketball coach, and 6 students were diagnosed

Ou Jiarong emphasized that one of the 23-year-old male alcoholics who was infected with the epidemic was a part-time basketball coach. On Tuesday (24th), he went to Yuen Long Pok Oi Hospital Deng Peiqiong Middle School to teach a basketball training class. He fell ill on the same evening after teaching.

The training class involved 30 students, involving 4 grades and distributed in 14 classes. Among them, 6 students have been "recruited". Two of them tested positive for the virus yesterday, and the remaining 4 were confirmed by sampling this morning. The time ranged from Wednesday (25th) to Friday (27th), and two of them had their last school day on Thursday (26th), but four of them still went to school yesterday (27th).

Yuen Long Pok Oi Hospital Tang Pui King Secondary School.

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The CHP recommended that schools be cleaned and disinfected, and the remaining 24 students who had participated in basketball training classes were listed as close contacts and arranged for home quarantine.

Crew of cargo plane arriving in India is among local infections

In addition, the genetic analysis of the Public Health Laboratory Service found that a 36-year-old local cargo plane crew member was infected with the virus. He arrived from India last Saturday. The gene showed that the virus strain he was infected with was BA.2.2, which belongs to the current local virus strain. , so the Centre listed it as a local infection case.

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A 44-year-old male clerk on the tarmac of the airport is suspected of being infected with BA.4 or BA.5

Genetic analysis also found that a 44-year-old man working as a clerk in the airport apron office was positive for the L452R strain, which initially showed that it might be a branch of BA.4 or BA.5, but it remains to be further analyzed to determine which it belongs to. a branch.

The patient lives in Block L, Xingang City, Ma'anshan, which had been closed for inspection. He has had three injections, has been asymptomatic, and has been regularly tested. The test result on May 14 was negative, and it was not until last Wednesday (18). Positive, after completing the seven-day quarantine on Wednesday (25th), he went to the community testing center to collect the sun and it was still positive. The CT value of the sun collection result the next day had risen to over 35, indicating that the virus load was low.

The family members who live with him are negative and have no symptoms so far.

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270 new confirmed cases today, 31 imported cases

In terms of the overall epidemic situation, there were 270 new confirmed cases today, of which 116 were confirmed by nucleic acid testing, and the remaining 154 were positive cases by rapid test.

The fifth wave of the epidemic has accumulated 1,199,227 cases so far.

Among the confirmed cases, 31 were imported cases, of which 16 were positive at the time of sampling at the airport, another 12 were confirmed during the quarantine period, and three were confirmed after the quarantine was completed. One of them was on the 15th day of arrival in Hong Kong. That is to say, he was released from "epidemic supervision" for more than a week before he was "recruited". The patient is a 30-year-old man who arrived in Hong Kong from the Philippines on May 12. He has received all three injections and has been asymptomatic. He was diagnosed overseas last month. On the fourth (26th), he was positive for the virus after sampling at the community testing center, but the CT value was as high as 35, which means that the amount of virus was extremely low, so the center suspected that it was a positive case.

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The remaining two people who were "successfully recruited" after completing the quarantine were all diagnosed when they went to the mainland to pass through customs and were diagnosed again. They were diagnosed on the 7th and 8th days after arriving in Hong Kong respectively. 42, that is, the viral load is extremely low, and one of them tested negative again on the same day, so it is also believed to be a positive case.

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