Thread by @tripperhead

#COVID19 cases 🇭🇰 (April 18th)

• new cases: 30

• local: 1 (1 linked, 0 unknown source)

• imported: 29

• Days since last local infection: 0

• Total cases: 11683 (+1 probable)

Local linked case:

Case #11672, 31/F, lives in Parkes Building Jordan. (Girlfriend of N501Y case?)

Imported cases:

22 from India (2 at airport, 20 in hotel quarantine)

4 from Indonesia (2 at airport, 2 in hotel quarantine)

1 from Canada

1 from the Philippines

1 from Egypt

All cases details:

7 day average local cases: 3.29📉

Real-time effective reproductive number of local COVID-19 cases: 1.0738📈

30 day local and imported cases

7 day moving average of unknown source casess (ATB): 1.29

Via HK01, the local linked case (#11672) is the girlfriend of the N501Y case (#11643)

Also the imported case arriving from the Philippines, 35/F case #11656 also tested positive for the N501Y variant.

Around 10 preliminary positive cases so far today.