Coronavirus: Hong Kong reaches 100 confirmed cases as two more infections recorded including cruise ship evacuee
- Woman who had been on virus-struck Diamond Princess cruise ship and brother of another Covid-19 patient confirmed with infection
- Separately, an 88-year-old care home resident who registered a ‘weak positive’ was confirmed as not infected after further testing
Hong Kong reached a total of 100 coronavirus cases on Monday, after infections were confirmed in two people, a woman who had been on the virus-struck Diamond Princess cruise ship and the brother of another Covid-19 patient.
The woman, now being treated at Queen Mary Hospital in Pok Fu Lam, had developed a fever on February 16, before returning to Hong Kong on February 22 with 81 other Hongkongers and two Macau residents on a chartered flight from Japan. She began to cough on February 27 and had earlier tested positive for the infection.
The ship has been at the centre of more than 700 cases of the viral infection. The first batch of evacuees who returned to the city on February 20 will finish their 14-day quarantine at Chun Yeung Estate in Fo Tan on Thursday. It emerged on Monday that the government would arrange two coaches leaving for Tai Wai MTR station between 12.30am and 10.30am for the quarantined locals.
As a close contact of his sister, he was earlier sent to a quarantine centre since he had not developed any symptoms. The Department of Health confirmed he had no travel history outside the city during the incubation period, but attended his daughter’s wedding on February 22.