Four more residents of a building in a public housing estate in
Shatin have reportedly tested preliminary positive for Covid-19 tonight, Jun 1, bringing the total
number of infected people there to six.
The first two cases in Luk Chuen House in Lek Yuen Estate
involve a 34-year-old woman who is in critical condition in Prince of Wales
Hospital, and her 56-year-old husband.
If confirmed, the four additional cases will bring Hong Kong's total tally to 1091.
Three other cases linked to the sick woman were revealed by
health officials today.
The first two, both women aged 40 and 36, work with her at
the Kerry Logistics warehouse in Kwai Chung, while the third is an ambulanceman
who took her to the hospital on Saturday.
According to local media reports, the four new confirmed cases are all women, aged 55 to 88 years old.
They were among more than 600 residents of the housing
estate who were given sample bottles after the couple was found infected on
Sunday.
The reports say it is not known whether the new confirmed
patients had any physical contact with their previously diagnosed neighbors.
A similar cluster outbreak happened earlier in Cheung Hong
Estate, Tsing Yi, where a total of seven people were infected. An inspection
revealed that two of the patients lived in the same flat number, 7, but were
separated by 10 floors.
Experts later concluded that the virus must have spread
through the pipes because of a faulty plumbing design in the building.
The same cause was cited in the mass infestation that
occurred in Amoy Gardens
in Kowloon
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| The virus also spread in this food factory where the first patient in the cluster works |
Earlier on Monday, health officials urged private doctors to
immediately send any patient with respiratory symptoms for Covid-19 testing,
after noting that all three women who worked in the Kerry warehouse had been to
private clinics after feeling unwell.
Undersecretary for Health Chui Tak-yi said the authorities
are concerned about the latest cluster of local infections, which occurred after
two weeks of no local transmission.
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He reminded private doctors they should get patients tested
for coronavirus even if their symptoms are mild.
Another concern was the low-level infection found in the
paramedic, the first health frontliner in the city to contract Covid-19.
Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan from the Centre for Health Protection
said the man had performed some procedures on the sick woman, but was only
wearing a surgical mask and not an N95 respirator.
Chuang said the paramedic was asymptomatic with a low viral
load. She said this was “strange,” as it could mean he had been infected
before.
He has been classified as a “probable cause” and was not yet
added to the official list of infected people.
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