Hong Kong confirms just one new coronavirus case but government believes it’s too early to ease back on restrictions, sources say
- Work-from-home arrangements for civil servants expected to remain in place for another week, as will ban on entertainment and social venues opening
- Latest case involves a 19-year-old female student who studies in Britain and returned to Hong Kong on April 1
But according to government sources, officials planned to keep prevention measures as they were for now, with work-from-home arrangements for civil servants expected to remain in place for another week, as would the ban on entertainment and social venues opening.
At Thursday’s regular press conference on the Covid-19 situation in Hong Kong, Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan, head of the communicable disease branch of the Centre for Health Protection, attributed the single-digit increase in cases in recent days partly to the success of recent social restrictions imposed by the government and on immigration measures and quarantine requirements for arrivals.
But she also urged people not to let their guard down, stressing the need to watch for a possible resurgence of infections as many people had been out over the Easter holiday.
Chuang would not be drawn into whether the recent figures signalled it was time to ease some social restrictions.