By Vir B. Lumicao
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| Today's local case worked at Uptown Plaza, where the airport staff did parttime work |
Six
new coronavirus cases were reported in
The
Centre for Health Protection said the local case, a 24-year-old woman, is a
colleague of the 27-year-old ground crew of Hong Kong Airlines (case 11902) who
worked parttime at
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The
CHP said the woman who last went to work on Jun 23 provided customer service at
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The CHP
said the female patient developed fever yesterday, Jun 26 and was taken to hospital on
the same day. Late today, the CHP confirmed she carried a mutant strain.
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She did
not get vaccinated against Covid-19.
The government made a “restriction-testing declaration” on Block 10, Tai Po Centre, Tai Po, covering the tower where the patient resides, and an area nearby. The exercise began at 7:10pm today and will finish at about 7am tomorrow.
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People
who were present at the venues where the patient visited at specified periods
need to undergo compulsory testing on or before the specified date, the CHP
said.
The
five other new cases were a woman aged 22 who arrived from
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The
CHP said two seamen aged 30 and 31 who arrived from Bangladesh on Jun 11 were
close contacts of a 56-year-old
Bangladeshi seaman who was found dead on a cargo vessel anchored on Hong Kong waters.
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Specimen
samples taken from his corpse showed he carried the Delta variant. As a result,
all 26 crewmembers of the ship were put under compulsory quarantine on board
the vessel.
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All
five imported cases were found carrying the L425R strain of the Delta mutation
of the coronavirus, said the CHP. A staff said laboratory tests are going on to
find out if they also carried the N501Y strain.
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