CHP Confirms Two More Imported Covid Cases

The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) announced two new imported cases of coronavirus in Hong Kong on Friday.

The patients are a 15-year-old boy who returned from Britain and a 61-year-old woman coming back from the Netherlands.

The woman told officials she developed a fever and a cough in mid-April while in the Netherlands but she had since got better.

Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan of the CHP said the woman tested negative when she arrived last Thursday but sought medical help on Wednesday because her cough had persisted.

The new cases take the number of infections in Hong Kong so far to 1,065.

Chuang said authorities had distributed bottles to care home workers to collect their saliva samples for coronavirus testing as part of a surveillance programme.

But she said that only three staff would be tested at each care home.

It is a surveillance programme to keep track of the situation in the care homes, she explained.