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| Two guests at the hotel were found infected, one of them 4 days after he died in hospital |
Two elderly men who didn’t know each other but stayed on the
same floor of Metropark Hotel in Mong Kok were among the eight confirmed
Covid-19 cases reported today, Sept 2. All cases were locally acquired.
One of the men, an 87-year-old waiting to be allowed back to
the Mainland, was found to have the virus only after he died on Aug 27. The
pathologist who did a post mortem on the remains on Aug. 31 took a sample, and
it came out positive for the virus yesterday.
The other man, a 70-year-old retiree who arrived from Taiwan
The two patients were among four cases with no known source,
according to Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan, head of the communicable disease branch of
the Centre for Health Protection, at today’s press briefing.
She said results from the universal community testing which
began yesterday have yet to be reported to CHP.
The two other untraceable cases today were a 61-year-old man
from Ka Tin Estate in Tai Wai, who works as a car mechanic in the area; and a
45-year-old construction worker at Hong Kong Disneyland who lives in Causeway Bay
The other cases were linked to previous infections.
Two were residents of the Hong Chi hostel for the mentally
handicapped in Lei Muk Shue estate in Tsuen Wan, where there are now 20
confirmed cases among both the staff and residents.
The two others were two men who are related to each other,
but live in separate houses in Tsuen Wan.
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| No positive test results from yesterday's start of universal testing have yet been released |
Dr Chuang said relatives of the two patients who lived in
Metropark Hotel said the men did not interact each other although they were the
only ones on the floor where they stayed.
All 10 other guests at the hotel, as well as the staff, will
be tested for Covid-19 to make sure the virus was not spread by an unknown
carrier.
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Chuang also said the police and ambulance workers who tried
to resuscitate the patient who died will be tested, while mortuary staff who
did not wear protective gear when they handled the remains will be quarantined.
But she ruled out any connection between the two infected guests and previous cases linked to a restaurant in the hotel, saying the two men never ate there.
She also said there was nothing unusual
about the activities of the two men, as both spent most of the time inside the
hotel, and only went out to eat. The younger man also went occasionally to Mong
Kok market, and to Choi Hung estate where his mother lives.
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Including the hotel guest, three patients passed away from
Covid-related illnesses within the past 24 hours, raising the death toll to 93.
The two other patients was a 66-year-old man who died in Yan Chai Hospital at 7:55am today, while the other was a
79-year-old man who succumbed to the illness in United Christian
Hospital
Dr Linda Yu of the Hospital Authority said that of the 4,831
total confirmed cases, only 302 remain in hospital. Among them, 25 are in
critical condition, 26 are in serious condition, and 251 are stable.
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