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Published: 1:35pm, 29 Apr, 2021
Elizabeth Cheung, Ng Kang-chung, Danny Mok and Victor Ting
Hundreds of occupants of a 52-storey residential block in Tung Chung have been ordered into quarantine in Hong Kong?s biggest such operation after one of them was confirmed to have contracted a mutated strain of Covid-19 from an unknown source locally for the first time in the city.
... Occupants will have to undergo three weeks of quarantine in government centres.
Health officials said the patient was a 39-year-old domestic helper from the Philippines, and her infection carried the N501Y and E484K mutations. Both types were found in more infectious strains first identified in South Africa and Brazil, and further sequencing would be needed to determine the variant.
Elizabeth Cheung, Ng Kang-chung, Danny Mok and Victor Ting
Hundreds of occupants of a 52-storey residential block in Tung Chung have been ordered into quarantine in Hong Kong?s biggest such operation after one of them was confirmed to have contracted a mutated strain of Covid-19 from an unknown source locally for the first time in the city.
... Occupants will have to undergo three weeks of quarantine in government centres.
Health officials said the patient was a 39-year-old domestic helper from the Philippines, and her infection carried the N501Y and E484K mutations. Both types were found in more infectious strains first identified in South Africa and Brazil, and further sequencing would be needed to determine the variant.
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