Measles latest: Bulgari sales assistant in Harbour City shopping centre, Tsim Sha Tsui, is newest victim of disease in Hong Kong

Store worker’s diagnosis takes city tally for cases of the virus to 75 this year, which is up from 15 for all of 2018

It follows outbreak this year at Hong Kong International Airport, triggering emergency response from Centre for Health Protection

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The measles virus has infected another victim in Hong Kong in 2019. Photo: Shutterstock

Published: 10:14pm, 28 May 2019Updated: 2:36am, 29 May 2019

A sales assistant in Hong Kong who works at a shop next to the Gucci outlet hit earlier by a measles outbreak has emerged as the latest victim of the disease.

The latest case pushed the total number of measles cases in the city to 75 so far this year, up from 15 last year and four in 2017, according to the Centre for Health Protection.

The 32-year-old man works at the Bulgari store in Harbour City shopping centre in the tourist district of Tsim Sha Tsui.

Six staff members at the Gucci shop next door contracted the disease earlier this month.

Shoppers at Harbour City shopping centre in Tsim Sha Tsui last year, where there have been several cases of measles among shop staff. Photo: Edmond So

A centre spokesman said on Tuesday: “It is premature to speculate if the disease had spread from [Gucci]. The man told us that he believed he had not contacted any measles patients.”