Thread by @tripperhead

#COVID19 cases 🇭🇰 (April 19th)

• new cases: 12

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

• imported: 11

• Days since last local infection: 0

• Total cases: 11695 (+1 probable)

Local linked case:
84/M, lives at Blk 2, Oi Fai House, Yau Oi Estate, Tuen Mun.

Imported cases:

7 from India (4 at airport, 3 in hotel quarantine)

3 from the Philippines (all at airport)

1 from the USA (airport)

All case details:

Local linked case: Given environmental contamination on the same floor of the building cannot be excluded, the DH will issue quarantine orders to all remaining asymptomatic residents on 8th Floor of Block 2, Oi Fai House in Yau Oi Estate and transfer them to quarantine centres.

N501Y mutation case from yesterday: The 31-year-old woman was a clinic staff member working at a clinic located at The Centrium, 60 Wyndham Street, Central. The CHP has arranged the close contacts of the case, including clinic staff members and patients, (cont. 1/3)

to undergo quarantine. The building has been included in the compulsory testing notice by the Government yesterday. Any person who had been present at The Centrium at any time during the period from 29/03 to 18/04, has to undergo testing by April 20. (cont. 2/3)

The CHP specifically appealed to anyone who had been present at the clinic to undergo a COVID-19 nucleic acid test within a specified period according to compulsory testing notices published in the Gazette.

(3/3 ends)

Regarding a preliminary positive case involving a kindergarten teacher announced by the CHP on 17/04, her sample was tested by the Public Health Laboratory and the result was indeterminate. She has undergone further tests after admitted to a hospital and the result was negative.

She was also tested negative for COVID-19 antibody. As such, the case will not be classified as a confirmed case at the moment.

7 day average local cases: 3.14📉

Real-time effective reproductive number of local COVID-19 cases: 1.0481📉

30 day local and imported cases

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