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By The SUN
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| Chuang says they're 'very very worried' about the new Delta case |
A residential building in Aberdeen has been locked
down overnight, after health officials reported its first local case with the
Delta variant in their daily press briefing today, Jan 16.
The case involving a 23-year-old woman who works at the
Little Boss pet shop in Causeway Bay, was one of the preliminary positive cases
of Covid-19 reported on Sunday.
Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan of the Centre for Health
Protection said during the briefing that the case is causing concern that an
unknown transmission of Delta is going on in the community at the same time as
the more infectious Omicron variant.
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“There may be a Delta strain circulating, so it’s not
only restricted to the Omicron cases we detected recently. So of course we are very,
very worried if there are other cases of infections that have not been detected,”
Chuang said.
“As for the source of her infection, we’re still
investigating.”
Initial investigations showed the patient developed a
cough on Jan 4 but did not seek medical help. The night before she went to have
a hotpot dinner with a friend.
On Jan 5 she again had dinner with a friend, and on
Jan 10 stayed overnight in a hotel in Wanchai before having another meal with
friends. She had herself tested only when she started coughing and had a sore
throat.
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Chuang again reminded the public to immediately seek
medical help if they develop symptoms to stop the spread of the virus.
The CHP reported 11 new confirmed cases today, eight of them imported.
One locally detected case, that of a 74-year-old man
living in City Garden, North Point, is linked to the dance cluster that started
with a Cathay flight stewardess who infected family members after arriving from
the United States.
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Two were classified as possibly import-related case.
One involves a female aircraft cabin cleaner and the other, a Pakistani
housewife who is believed to have been infected during her 21-day quarantine at
Silka Seaview Hotel in Yau Ma Tei.
Chuang said genomic sequencing tests carried out at
PolyTechnic University showed the case of the aircraft cleaner tallied with
those from recent arrivals from Finland, United States and other places.
The case of the Pakistani housewife, on the other hand,
is linked to those of five other guests who stayed in four different rooms on
two separate floors at Silka Seaview.
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| Yuen says the virus must have spread in Silka when the guests opened their doors |
Including today’s new confirmed cases, Hong Kong’s
total Covid-19 tally has gone up to 13,041.
CHP announced in a separate statement that starting
tomorrow, it will conduct a special arrangement under which those who have
finished the 14 days of quarantine at quarantine centre (except inbound travelers
covered by Cap. 599E) will be tested for the virus. If they test negative, they
will be allowed to leave the quarantine centre in a gradual and orderly manner.
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This means, those presently undergoing 21 days of
quarantine will have their stay shortened for one to seven days. Afterwards,
they will have to undergo self-monitoring at home for the remaining days of
their original quarantine period.
“Though they will not be prohibited from going out
during self-monitoring, they should monitor their health conditions, maintain
social distance with other people and avoid social gatherings,” said the
statement.
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“They are also subject to testing at a community testing
centre on Day 19, counting from the last day of exposure to the case tested
positive.”
CHP also announced that passenger flight UO705 operated by Hong Kong Express Airways from Bangkok, Thailand, will be suspended for two weeks, or until Jan 29, after one of its passengers on Jan 14 tested positive on arrival and another failed to comply with boarding requirements.
