By The SUN
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| It now appears the man was infected by three recently arrived travelers from Indonesia |
A 27-year-old man found to carry the Delta variant is no longer classified as a local case with an unknown source.
In a statement issued today, the Centre for Health Protection said that genetic sequencing for case number 11902, a man who worked at HK Airport, showed it was identical to three previous imported cases (11877, 11878 and 11881).
Further, CHP’s investigations revealed that the man had
brief encounters at the specimen collection centre at HK Airport with the three
linked cases, all involving domestic helpers who just arrived from
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Taking both factors into consideration, the CHP said it was reclassifying the man’s case from local with unknown source, to epidemiologically linked with imported cases.
As a result, case 11918, the man’s female colleague who was also found to carry the Delta variant after she was identified as his close contact, will also be classified as a case linked to an imported case.
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The man’s case sparked concern initially, as it was thought
to be the first infection of the Delta variant found within
With the reclassification, the only local case with the variant with source unknown, is that of the 17-year-old girl in Tin Shui Wai found to carry a rare strain of the Alpha mutation of the virus. Her mother and sister also tested for the variant afterwards.
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Meanwhile, only one case was recorded today, involving a
43-year-old man who flew in from the
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A total of 42 cases have been reported in the past 14 days, including 40 imported cases and the two newly reclassified local cases.
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