Seven New Covid Cases Confirmed, None Untraceable

The number of new Covid-19 cases swung back into the single digits on Tuesday, with authorities confirming seven new infections – comprising of three local and four imported cases, but no untraceable ones.

The three local cases are of a woman and her two children who live in Wah Tong House at Yau Tong Estate, and are linked to a previous infection.

But a government adviser on the pandemic, Chinese University academic David Hui, warned that coronavirus infections could jump up again after the holidays, when people generally stay away from doctors.

“We just had the last day of the long holiday where a lot of the clinics have been closed. A lot of the private doctors have also on leave, so we have to watch out in the next week or two whether there is any rebound of the cases,” he said.

Hui also added his voice to a growing number of experts who have been urging the government against further relaxing Covid restrictions.

“At this stage I don’t think we should relax any social distancing measures,” he warned.

Hui also noted that authorities have been finding the odd untraceable Covid-19 case even though the number of local infections have remained low.

“You can see that almost every second day we do encounter a case of unknown source, so that implies that we still have silent transmission in the community, so at this moment I think we have to be very cautious.”

Health authorities say nine of 127 Covid-19 cases reported over the past two weeks are from unknown sources.