Coronavirus: Hong Kong public housing estate evacuated after cluster of Covid-19 infections found
- Officials have moved some residents from Luk Chuen House at Lek Yuen Estate in Sha Tin
- Authorities are investigating whether the virus was spread through pipes
The move came as six more coronavirus cases were confirmed, five of which involved Hongkongers returning from Bangladesh, while the sixth was a 72-year-old resident of the affected housing block.
The new cases took the city’s tally to 1,099, with four related deaths.
Authorities evacuated no more than 100 residents in Luk Chuen House at Lek Yuen Estate in Sha Tin, living in flats numbered 10 and 12, across 14 floors, according to the Centre for Health Protection at the Department of Health.
Those evacuated would spend 14 days at the government-run quarantine camp, said Chuang Shuk-kwan, the head of the centre’s communicable disease branch.
Five residents from three flats numbered 12 and a flat numbered 10 were confirmed infected. The decision to evacuate was made after a resident in a third flat numbered 12 was found to have the virus, even though no structural defects in the drainage system had been discovered.
