Coronavirus: Hong Kong records four new preliminary positive cases, after earlier confirming three locally transmitted Covid-19 infections

All seven cases are related to one reported on Sunday, a woman who works at a Kerry Logistics warehouse in Kwai Chung and lives at Lek Yuen Estate in Sha Tin

They involve two of the woman’s colleagues and four of her neighbours, as well as the paramedic who transported her to hospital

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Workers wearing protective gear disinfect Luk Chuen House at Lek Yuen Estate in Sha Tin. Photo: Sam Tsang

Published: 12:52pm, 1 Jun 2020Updated: 5:15am, 2 Jun 2020

There are fears of a fresh community outbreak in Hong Kong as four more preliminary positive Covid-19 cases were recorded on Monday night, according to government sources, after health authorities had earlier confirmed three new locally transmitted cases.

All seven cases are related to a case reported on Sunday, a 34-year-old woman who works at a Kerry Logistics warehouse in Kwai Chung.

They involve two of the woman’s colleagues and four of her neighbours from Lek Yuen Estate in Sha Tin, as well as the paramedic who transported her to hospital. Authorities are still trying to determine how they contracted the virus.

Hong Kong had previously gone more than two weeks without a locally transmitted case.

A woman who worked at Kerry Logistics’s temperature-controlled food warehouse was confirmed to have Covid-19 on Sunday. Two colleagues tested positive for the virus. Photo: Winson Wong

“The paramedic should be the first [of his profession] to possibly get infected due to work,” said Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan, head of the communicable disease branch at the Centre for Health Protection.

“His viral load was quite low. If he was at the early stage of infection, the viral load should be high. We found it was a bit strange.”