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Coronavirus: social welfare staff at evacuated Hong Kong housing block test negative after exhibiting flu symptoms
- The six worked at a family service centre in the building, where more than 100 residents were evacuated during the early hours of Tuesday
- As of Wednesday, one two-person household had still refused to be evacuated from the building
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Six staff from a social welfare office in the Hong Kong housing block evacuated after a pair of coronavirus confirmations have tested negative after being sent to hospital with flu symptoms.
The six work at a family service centre on the ground floor of Hong Mei House on Cheung Hong Estate, from which more than 100 residents in 33 households were removed in the early hours of Tuesday.
Two people in the block were confirmed to be infected with the deadly virus that causes the disease named Covid-19 by the World Health Organisation. Three more people connected to the block in the city’s Tsing Yi area were also confirmed as infected later that day.
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As of Wednesday night, there was still one two-person household in the block – involving an elderly person who might not understand the situation – that refused to be evacuated, according to the Centre for Health Protection (CHP).
So far, 50 people in Hong Kong have been confirmed as infected with the virus, which has killed one person in the city and more than 1,100 in mainland China.
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