By Daisy CL Mandap
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| The couple from the US is believed to have been infected during quarantine at Lan Kwai Fong hotel |
At least 17 people who have taken lessons at a training school in Sheung Wan have tested positive for Covid-19, while a couple who arrived from the United States is suspected to have caught an Omicron sub-variant during quarantine at the Lan Kwai Fong hotel.
These were revealed at today’s press conference on the Covid-19 situation, during which health officials also reported 291 new infections, 26 of them imported.
According to Dr Albert Au of the Centre for Health
Protection, the couple who arrived from
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However, the 64-year-old woman developed symptoms and tested positive on day 12 of their arrival during the required follow-up testing. Her 65-year-old husband was asymptomatic but also tested positive with a low Ct value, suggesting a new infection.
Further tests showed the couple who were both triple-jabbed, carried the Omicron BA.2.12.1 sub-variant.
Genomic sequencing showed the mutant virus they carried was
identical to that found in a father-and-son duo, aged 62 and 27, respectively, who arrived from
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Government adviser on infectious diseases, Dr Yuen Kwok-yung, has been asked to check out the hotel to find out how the cross-infection might have occurred.
Meanwhile, the Benchmark training school in Sheung Wan has been found to be at the centre of a new Covid-19 outbreak.
According to Au, 17 cases involving 15 students and two staff at Benchmark have been found infected after the training school was linked to another outbreak at the nearby TamJai SamGor Mixian restaurant.
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Four of the five infected people who had eaten at the restaurant at about the same time on May 13 had taken classes at Benchmark.
Au said no new cases had emerged from TamJai, but there were two additional infections linked to the Imperial Kitchen in Kwun Tong, raising the total tally there to 30 so far.
Environmental samples have been taken from Benchmark but the test results have yet to be released.
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| A Benchmark training session in progress (Facebook photo) |
As for the schools, he said 18 additional cases were reported by 17 schools, involving 13 students and five teachers and staff.
Of the 26 imported cases, 17 were detected at the airport, and eight in quarantine hotels.
The patients had flown in from
The additional cases took
The corresponding death toll also climbed to 9,157 after four more Covid-related deaths were reported yesterday.
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Hospital Authority's Dr Lau Ka-hin said the new deaths involved a man and three women aged between 64 and 95. One had received the booster jab but the other three had no vaccination record.
As of the latest bulletin, 553 patients were confined at public hospitals and treatment facilities. One patient is in critical condition, another in a serious condition. They are among 10 who are now receiving treatment at the intensive care unit.
In the past 24 hours, 91 patients have recovered from Covid-19 and 69 of them have been discharged.
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