HK reports 5 COVID-19 cases

April 10, 2021

The Centre for Health Protection today said it is investigating five additional COVID-19 cases, of which two are locally transmitted.

 

The new cases involve three men and two women aged between six and 66.

 

The two local cases, involving a 66-year-old man and a six-year-old boy, are epidemiologically linked with a local case. They live at Block 3 of Oi Fai House, Yau Oi Estate in Tuen Mun where a confirmed case was detected earlier this week.

 

Additionally, the centre detected two preliminary cases at Block 3 of Oi Fai House. They are family members residing in a unit 32.

 

So far, four confirmed and two preliminary positive COVID-19 cases have been detected in the same building.

 

In view of a confirmed case previously detected at a unit 31 and an investigation revealed that units 9 and 10 and 31 and 32 separately share a common soil pipe, the centre took into account the opinions from experts and decided to carry out more prudent infection control measures.

 

The Department of Health will further issue quarantine orders to all asymptomatic residents in units 10, 31 and 32 on all floors of Block 3 of Oi Fai House and transfer them to quarantine centres, whereas symptomatic residents will be sent to the hospital for treatment.

 

The three imported cases arrived from the Philippines, Pakistan and Indonesia.

 

A total of 124 cases have been recorded in the past 14 days, including 23 local ones, of which 10 have unknown infection sources.

 

Additionally, the Government will extend the service period of the mobile specimen collection stations at On Ting/Yau Oi Community Centre in Tuen Mun to April 14 and the stations at Beech Street in Tai Kok Tsui, 100 Granville Road in Tsim Sha Tsui East and Hankow Road in Tsim Sha Tsui to April 18.

 

For information and health advice on COVID-19, visit the Government's dedicated webpage.

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