Exclusive | Coronavirus: kitchen exhaust fans could be behind latest Hong Kong cluster, says leading infectious disease expert
- Professor Yuen Kwok-yung reveals findings into outbreak at Luk Chuen House at Lek Yuen Estate, in Sha Tin
- Residents on different floors living in units numbered 10 and 12 have fallen ill
The analysis from Professor Yuen Kwok-yung, an expert from the University of Hong Kong who advises the government on the pandemic, could shed new light on the spread of the coronavirus in Luk Chuen House at Lek Yuen Estate, in Sha Tin.
Yuen spoke to the Post on Friday as the city confirmed three new imported Covid-19 cases, bringing the tally to 1,102, with four related deaths.
Although no new local cases were reported, the return of infections within the community over the past week has raised the alarm.
More than 30 Sha Tin district councillors demanded that schools in their area be suspended to prevent a wider outbreak.
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Two of the imported cases involved a 73-year-old woman and her eight-year-old granddaughter who returned from India on Thursday on the second flight chartered by the government to bring residents home. They were the first returnees on a chartered flight from India to have been found with the virus.