Coronavirus fears spread to Hong Kong employees at bank, telecoms company and fashion boutique, as staff on self-quarantine after close contact with confirmed cases
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Bank and telecommunication employees, as well as staff at a boutique fashion outlet in Hong Kong are among people in self-quarantine following contact with confirmed coronavirus cases, as the city scrambles to contain the outbreak.
At fashion store Fendi in Times Square, located in the busy shopping hub of Causeway Bay, fears set in after an employee’s sister was diagnosed with the illness. They had last interacted on January 26, but do not live together.
News of the relationship spread across online platforms, with the Italian fashion house closing its store for sanitation on Wednesday. Some staff members were seen back at work in the morning, but all left in the afternoon, with items at the boutique taken off shelves.
It was understood that Times Square had requested the shop to require all staff to self-quarantine immediately, and the mall had also strengthened sanitation measures.
Separately, 25 employees in the back office of the Bank of East Asia building in Kwun Tong were put on self-quarantine at home, after it was found that two of them previously had close contact with a confirmed case, according to the bank.