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Four more test positive as hospital cluster grows
2020-12-27 HKT 02:26
Three more staff and another patient at the United Christian Hospital in Kwun Tong tested preliminary positive for Covid-19, taking the total to 19.
The news emerged in the early hours of Sunday, not long after leading microbiologist and government adviser Yuen Kwok-yung revealed that his investigations showed the growing cluster was linked to a single patient, considered a super-spreader.
The University of Hong Kong expert was called in to investigate after 11 patients and four staff were confirmed to have the virus. He found that a single 84-year-old woman who was moved between wards likely spread the virus.
Hospital officials said the woman was admitted on December 15 and tested negative for the coronavirus.
She was later transferred to the palliative care ward due to a bed shortage before she was found to be carrying the coronavirus.
Yuen described it as a "most unfortunate" super spreading event, adding that the virus might have been transmitted through the air in the palliative care ward.
https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1567246-20201227.htm
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The Centre for Health Protection also announced that a traveller from London had been confirmed to have been infected with a more contagious variant of the coronavirus that was first discovered in the UK.
It said the patient arrived from London on December 11 and developed a fever during hotel quarantine last Sunday before being confirmed with the virus.
Dr Albert Au from the centre said the traveller had had no close contacts, noting that it was a quarantine hotel and staff followed the CHP guidelines on using personal protective equipment and disinfecting the rooms properly.
https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1567204-20201226.htm?spTabChangeable=0
2020-12-27 HKT 02:26
Three more staff and another patient at the United Christian Hospital in Kwun Tong tested preliminary positive for Covid-19, taking the total to 19.
The news emerged in the early hours of Sunday, not long after leading microbiologist and government adviser Yuen Kwok-yung revealed that his investigations showed the growing cluster was linked to a single patient, considered a super-spreader.
The University of Hong Kong expert was called in to investigate after 11 patients and four staff were confirmed to have the virus. He found that a single 84-year-old woman who was moved between wards likely spread the virus.
Hospital officials said the woman was admitted on December 15 and tested negative for the coronavirus.
She was later transferred to the palliative care ward due to a bed shortage before she was found to be carrying the coronavirus.
Yuen described it as a "most unfortunate" super spreading event, adding that the virus might have been transmitted through the air in the palliative care ward.
https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1567246-20201227.htm
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snip
The Centre for Health Protection also announced that a traveller from London had been confirmed to have been infected with a more contagious variant of the coronavirus that was first discovered in the UK.
It said the patient arrived from London on December 11 and developed a fever during hotel quarantine last Sunday before being confirmed with the virus.
Dr Albert Au from the centre said the traveller had had no close contacts, noting that it was a quarantine hotel and staff followed the CHP guidelines on using personal protective equipment and disinfecting the rooms properly.
https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1567204-20201226.htm?spTabChangeable=0