Residents Of Seven Blocks Latest To Face Covid Tests

All residents of seven buildings in various parts of the territory are being ordered to take Covid-19 tests after new untraceable infections were found in their blocks.

Under tighter testing requirements, mandatory orders are now being issued for residents of buildings with a single Covid case where the source is unknown, as well as if the virus is detected in sewage samples from the blocks.

There were a total of eight new untraceable infections in Hong Kong on Monday, out of 34 newly confirmed cases.

Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan of the Centre for Health Protection said the buildings in question are located in Pok Fu Lam, Jordan, Ho Man Tin, Hung Hom, North Point and Sai Ying Pun.

Five new imported cases involve people flying in from Indonesia, the Philippines, Nepal and the United Arab Emirates.

Around 50 residents at a Salvation Army elderly care home at Nam Shan Estate in Shek Kip Mei are being moved into quarantine after a member of staff there came down with the virus.

Chuang said the worker had originally been based at another care home in Tsing Yi, and while residents there were tested late last month, they will be tested again just as a precaution.

She added that there are no new confirmed infections involving construction workers for the airport's third runway, but there's a preliminary positive case among them.

Some 3,000 workers at the construction site were recently ordered to get tested after an outbreak there.