Coronavirus: fourth nightclub cluster found in Hong Kong while 250 bar patrons fined for breaching Covid rules
- Latest cluster uncovered involves Shuffle nightclub in Lan Kwai Fong, where 14 cases were reported
- Police raided a bar in Sham Shui Po and issued fixed-penalty notices to 151 men and 100 women, aged between 20 and 65
The city reported 499 new Covid-19 infections, including 49 imported ones, on Friday as outbreaks linked to bars and clubs in the city’s main nightlife district grew. Two more Covid-related deaths were recorded.
The tally of confirmed cases stands at 1,214,192 and the death toll at 9,382.
The latest cluster was detected at Lan Kwai Fong’s Shuffle nightclub, where 14 cases were reported. All of the patients had visited the venue between 11.30pm last Saturday and 2am on Sunday, and one of them had the previous week been to Zentral nightclub, where an outbreak was reported earlier.
“According to cases who had visited [Shuffle], there is an area for dancing,” said Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan, head of the communicable disease branch of the Centre for Health Protection. “Many of them were drinking alcohol, chatting and dancing, and many were not wearing masks.”