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| The two Indonesian DHs were in quarantine at Penny's Bay |
With the strong wind signal no. 8 hoisted across Hong Kong, eight new imported cases of Covid-19 were reported by health authorities today Oct. 9, including three foreign domestic helpers - two from Indonesia and one from the Philippines.
The two Indonesians, aged 36 and 45, tested positive while in Penny’s Bay Quarantine Centre while the 37-year-old Filipina was in Silka Tsuen Wan hotel.
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All the helpers were fully vaccinated in their home
countries, along with the remaining patients in the list, except for a
month-old baby boy from Pakistan who was in quarantine at Ramada Seaview Hotel
in Sai Yung Pun.
All were asymptomatic.
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The other patients included a 13-year-old girl and a
45-year-old man who came from Pakistan and were both in quarantine at Silka Far
East Hotel in Tsuen Wan; a 36-year-old woman from India who tested positive on
arrival, and a 29-year-old man from Nepal who was at Silka Seaview hotel in Yau
Ma Tei.
Meanwhile, the Centre for Health Protection said that the first local case in
51 days involving a L452R mutant strain, belongs to the Delta variant.
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The CHP statement said the Department of Health
laboratory will carry out further sequencing analysis and compare the genomes
of recent imported case involving the mutant strain to try and find a link to
the local infection.
Separately, the Environmental Protection Department
said sewage samples taken from Golden Lion Garden, where the 48-year-old airport
cargo handler lives, had tested positive for Covid.
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However the EPD said the viral load in the samples was
low, so it would collect more samples when the weather improves
Other reports said genetic sequencing of the man’s
sample showed a close resemblance to a case from Britain that was reported late
last month.
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Polytechnic University researchers reportedly found
only seven different genetic mutations between the two samples, which both
carried the Delta variant.
Gilman Siu from the university said the local man was
likely infected by an imported case but it was also possible that he got the
virus from contaminated cargo.
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