Hong Kong teachers demand Education Bureau drop coronavirus testing plan; city logs 37 new cases
- Nearly 90 per cent of educators polled in survey expressed anger at bureau’s attempt to tie regular faculty testing to the resumption of face-to-face classes
- Of Friday’s fresh infections, three are imported while nine are unlinked, with the caseload ending a recent downward trend
Of the fresh infections, three were imported, while nine were untraceable. The new figures pushed the city’s official tally to 10,589. Friday’s caseload ended a recent downward trend in daily numbers, with the previous day’s mark at 22.
After 7pm, authorities carried out their now-daily lockdown operations, this time at Fu Loy Garden in Yuen Long and Heng Kong House at Heng On Estate in Ma On Shan. Residents must take a Covid-19 test before 2am and the operation is expected to end at 7am on Saturday.
There has only been one infection recorded in each of the buildings over the past two weeks. Authorities previously warned they would carry out at least one lockdown per day until Lunar New Year.
Earlier on Friday, at least six residential buildings were put under ramped-up mandatory testing orders after each block recorded a case. The areas included private estates such as Block 9 of Gold Coast, and Carmel Cove Block 9 in Caribbean Coast in Tung Chung.
The coronavirus-hit construction site cluster at the airport’s third runway continued to expand, with two more confirmed cases linked to the group, bringing the number of patients involved to 24.