Hong Kong fourth wave: coronavirus outbreak at old North Point building sparks second evacuation in week
- Top infectious disease expert Professor Yuen Kwok-yung identifies transmission of virus in Tung Fat Building Block C, which has had 13 cases
- City confirms 60 new coronavirus infections and close to 40 preliminary-positive cases
All residents living in all the blocks of Tung Fat Building on Kam Ping Street, in North Point, as well as anyone who visited the flats for more than two hours between January 12 and 25, will also have to undergo mandatory testing.
The evacuation was the second such case in a week, following a similar move in Laguna City in Kwun Tong.
Health officials, meanwhile, revealed that between 70 and 80 security guards at the Harbourfront Horizon Suites hotel in Hung Hom had been quarantined, after at least five of them tested positive for Covid-19.
“Some of the guards tested positive at the quarantine centre. We earlier had sent those who shared changing rooms to isolation,” Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan, head of the communicable disease branch of the Centre for Health Protection (CHP), said.
The city confirmed 60 new coronavirus infections and close to 40 preliminary-positive cases.