Coronavirus: toddler among four new Hong Kong Covid-19 cases, all recently back from Britain
- The child was admitted to hospital after a stool sample returned positive for the virus
- Meanwhile, about 300 airport arrivals expected to spend the night at new Regal Oriental Hotel quarantine facility while awaiting test results
Hong Kong confirmed four new Covid-19 cases on Wednesday, including a child of two, bringing the city’s total infections to 1,033. All four had recently returned from Britain.
The new cases were reported as the government took the wraps off its new overnight quarantine facility at the Regal Oriental Hotel in Kowloon City, which was to begin accepting asymptomatic airport arrivals for testing that evening.
Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan, head of the communicable disease branch at the Centre for Health Protection, told a daily press conference that about 300 people were expected to spend the night at the hotel while awaiting results from saliva samples that were expected by Thursday noon.
Those testing positive will be sent to hospital, while their direct contacts will go to other government quarantine facilities. All others will be released to complete their 14-day mandatory isolation at home.
Addressing the city’s newest cases, Chuang said the two-year-old boy had come back to Hong Kong on April 12 and went into home quarantine with his family.
