Briefs, March 3, 2013

A 74-year-old man in an infirmary ward in Pok Oi Hospital in Yuen Long, where some patients are infected with human metapneumovirus, has a fever and respiratory problems. The New Territories West Cluster of hospitals said his infection was not related to Sars or novel coronavirus. Test results on the man, now in isolation and in a stable condition, are pending. At Castle Peak Hospital, which has seen cases of Influenza A recently, three more patients, aged 25 to 57 years, in a long-stay ward for men with respiratory problems. The hospitals have suspended admissions to the wards.

Temperatures in the afternoon were seven to eight degrees Celsius lower than those on Friday, amid an intense northeastern monsoon associated with a cold front sweeping over the northern part of the South China Sea. It will be cool this morning, with a minimum of about 13 degrees in urban areas, and slightly colder in the New Territories.