By The SUN
 |
| 8 new arrivals, including an FDH each from the Philippines and Indonesia, are among the new cases |
Twelve new Covid-19 cases were reported today, Oct. 15, after a one-day lag in reporting due to the hoisting of typhoon signal no 8 last Tuesday.
Eight of the new cases were imported, including two newly
arrived domestic helpers from the
The six others included four returnees from
 |
| Call us! |
The four local cases included two with unknown sources, including the 35-year-old clarinetist of Hong Kong Philharmonic who tested preliminary positive on Tuesday.
More than 90 of his close contacts, who included his fellow members in the orchestra and his family members, have been sent to a quarantine center. But according to Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan of the Centre for Health Protection, no other positive test result has yet emerged from this cluster.
The other untraceable case was a 73-year-old businessman living in Fei Ngo Shan who
was asymptomatic but tested positive after being admitted to
 |
| CONTACT US! |
Dr Chuang said that during the incubation period, the patient had a meal at the Japanese restaurant, Zuma, at the Landmark in Central, along with his wife and a friend.
He also visited the Kowloon Cricket Club, prompting health officials to distribute 200 specimen bottles to staff and guests at the facility.
Two close contacts of patients previously found infected, a three-year-old girl and a 66-year-old woman, have also tested positive for the disease.
The complete list of the new cases can be found here: https://gia.info.gov.hk/general/202010/15/P2020101500592_351704_1_1602753622805.pdf
 |
| Chui called on private doctors to test even those with mild Covid symptoms |
At the start of today’s press health briefing, Undersecretary for Food and Health Dr Chui Tak-yi called on private doctors to help detect new infections by testing even those with mild symptoms.
Dr Chui cited the case of an 86-year-old man who was found to have Covid-19 earlier this week after getting tested in Tseung Kwan O Hospital, , even if he had visited a private clinic twice previously.
 |
| Pindutin para sa detalye! |
He said private doctors should raise their “index of suspicion” to help in the early detection of the disease.
"When they present similar symptoms that share with many other common diseases, the clinicians could also consider Covid-19 as one of the differential diagnoses and order the relevant investigation, that is the Covid-19 tests," he said.
 |
| Tunghayan ang isa na namang kwentong Dream Love |
A total of 126 confirmed patients are being treated in 18 public hospitals, 12 of them in critical condition, 6 in serious condition, while the remaining 108 are stable.
 |
| Call us now! |
 |
| PRESS FOR MORE DETAILS |
