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| Zentral bar is located in California Tower in Lan Kwai Fong (website photo) |
Health officials have
reported a new Covid-19 outbreak at a club in Central where 11 customers had
contracted the virus, and as a consequence, one of them infected six other
people.
Dr Albert Au of the Centre
for Health Protection made the disclosure as he reported 270 new Covid-19 cases
on Saturday, 31 of them imported.
Au identified the bar as
Zentral, located at California Tower in Lan Kwai Fong.
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He said the patrons, six men
and five women aged between 17 and 29 years old, had visited the bar from 11pm
on May 21 until it was supposed to have closed at 2am the next day.
The sick patients developed
symptoms starting that Sunday until Thursday.
Au said a compulsory testing
notice has been issued for those who were at the bar on the dates and times
indicated.
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Authorities were also
checking whether any Covid restrictions were violated. He said records from the
LeaveHomeSafe app showed the last of the customers left at 5am, but this may
also be because they had forgotten to press the “leave” button when they
actually left.
According to Au, the 11
people who were infected did not seem to know each other.
"Many of the cases told
us they went on their own or with one or two friends. They told us they walked
around to drink and chat with others without wearing a mask," Au said.
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Following the spread of the
virus in the bar, one of the customers, a 23-year-old man who works as a
part-time basketball coach at a school in Yuen Long, appears to have passed it on
to six students he had coached.
The coach wore a mask during
the training session, but the players did not, said Au. Twenty-four other
players who joined the session have been asked to quarantine at home.
The CHP official also said
one more student at the DSC International School in Taikoo Shing has tested
positive for Covid, taking the number of infected people in the cluster to
five.
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Meanwhile, authorities said
one more students at the DSC International School in Taikoo Shing had tested
positive to Covid, taking the number of people infected in the cluster to five.
Officials who did follow-up
investigations also learned that one of the four infected primary school
student lives in the same Taikoo Shing block as a man who caught an Omicron
sub-variant in the McDonald’s restaurant nearby.
The student reportedly lives
on a floor above the man, but investigations are still being carried out to
find out if the two cases are related.
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Dr Larry Lee of the Hospital
Authority reported one Covid-related death, involving a 77-year-old man who
received two vaccine doses but suffered a stroke earlier and had a respiratory
disease.
He was taken to hospital
after complaining of breathing difficulties and was found to have pneumonia.
His condition deteriorated and he passed away on Friday.
The city’s death toll from
the fifth wave of the Covid outbreak has gone up to 9,163 while the total number
of infections in the same period is now at 1,199,227.
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