Coronavirus: Hong Kong records 44 new cases including 20-month-old child
- Local tally is now at 317, with 29 new imported cases involving travellers arriving from Europe, Canada and the United States
- Numbers come a day after city leader announced a raft of measures to contain spread
Hong Kong confirmed 44 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, most of them involving travellers returning from overseas, taking the local tally to 317.
Twenty-nine of the newly confirmed patients had a history of travel to countries including 10 from England, and some from Canada, the United States and European nations such as France, Germany and the Netherlands.
It also emerged that a nurse in Yan Chai Hospital in Tsuen Wan had travelled to Turkey with her father, who has tested preliminary positive for Covid-19. Tests results were pending and the nurse was asymptomatic and had been quarantined, the Hospital Authority said.
They included postponing university entrance exams by a month and ordering civil servants to resume working from home, starting on Monday.