A roundup on the first suspicious #WuFlu infection in HK: The 39yo man, who lives in Wuhan, arrived in Hong Kong via the high-speed rail in Shenzhen North on Jan 21. He was stopped by the HK Immigration at the checkpoint at the West Kowloon Station due to fever. #WuhanPneumonia
According to HK health minister Sophia Chan, he has never visited medical facilities and wet markets and has not been in contact with wild animals and livestock, nor people with pneumonia and upper respiratory disease. #WuhanCoronavirus #WuhanPneumonia
In his travel to Hong Kong, he was accompanied by four family members. But as the four didn’t show symptoms of the #WuhanPneumonia, they continued their journey to Manila, Philippines, whereas he sought medical assistance in a Hong Kong public hospital himself. #WuhanCoronavirus
Hong Kong health minister Sophia Chan cites preliminary results from the government’s Public Health Laboratory Services Branch, the 39-year-old man has tested positive for the novel #WuhanCoronavirus.
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