HK Confirms Three More Imported Covid-19 Cases

Health authorities confirmed three more imported cases of Covid-19 in Hong Kong on Sunday, though no new locally-transmitted cases were reported.

The new infections brings city’s total coronavirus tally to 1,047, but the SAR hasn’t seen a local case for 21 straight days now.

Two of the new patients are men in their 50s, who returned to Hong Kong on the same flight from Pakistan via Qatar on Qatar Airways flight QR818 on Saturday.

The Centre for Health Protection's Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan said both tested positive for Covid-19 after being brought to quarantine centres upon their return.

One of the men travelled alone, while family members of the other have all tested negative for the virus.

The third case is a 69-year-old woman who returned to Hong Kong from Britain on Cathay Pacific flight CX252 on Sunday morning.

Authorities believe she had caught the virus from infected family members in the UK, who had stayed at home after their diagnoses.

She herself had experienced symptoms while in the UK but was never tested.

Dr Chuang said all three patients were asymptomatic when they returned to Hong Kong.