Hong Kong fourth wave: four lockdowns identify no new coronavirus infections cases so far, as 34 cases logged citywide
- Measure applied to buildings, areas in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hung Hom Yuen Long and Yau Ma Tei, with lockdown lifted at about noon on Tuesday
- Hong Kong on Monday logged 34 new Covid-19 cases citywide, three from designated testing zone in Jordan and another in a similar area of Sham Shui Po
Four lockdowns imposed in Hong Kong for mandatory Covid-19 screening have so far identified no new infections, with residents testing negative allowed to leave the restricted areas for work early on Tuesday.
Officials cordoned off buildings in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hung Hom, Yau Ma Tei and Yuen Long on Monday, and ordered a partial evacuation at a large middle-class Lam Tin housing estate after determining the coronavirus was spreading there via a light shaft in one of its buildings.
Health authorities also confirmed 34 new Covid-19 cases citywide on Monday, three of which emerged in a designated testing zone in Jordan and another in a similar area within Sham Shui Po. Five infections were imported and eight were untraceable. About 20 people tested preliminary-positive.
The city’s tally of confirmed cases stood at 10,486, while another elderly resident succumbed to the disease, taking the number of related deaths to 182.
The four lockdowns were officially lifted at about midday on Tuesday after more than 1,600 residents had been tested. More than 100 households could not be reached, according to health authorities.
Residents testing negative for the coronavirus were free to leave the restricted zones from 6.30am for work purposes.