Coronavirus: Hong Kong records third death as five more cases confirmed, bringing total to 114

The 76-year-old woman, who had diabetes and lived in Un Lok House in Cheung Sha Wan’s Un Chau Estate, died at 5.13pm in Caritas Medical Centre, the Hospital Authority confirmed. She was admitted to hospital on February 29 after she was believed to have contracted the virus locally.

Her 79-year-old husband is in a stable condition in the same hospital. The couple had visited a park in their housing estate and also Po On Road Market in the district during the incubation period of the disease, but authorities were unable to locate the origin of their infection.

Among the five new cases, three have no symptoms. Three of the cases were likely to be imported infections.

Together with another case earlier considered “probable” but not deemed “confirmed”, a total of 115 people have been hospitalised after testing positive for the coronavirus. Fifty-eight of them have been discharged, 48 remain in nine public hospitals, with one in critical condition, according to the authority.

The 111th case is a 76-year-old man who had recently visited India with other Hong Kong travellers, five of whom were later confirmed to be infected.