Tai Wai Covid Cluster Adds Another Case

The number of Covid-19 cases linked to an outbreak at an industrial building in Tai Wai rose to 10 on Tuesday.

The latest patient is a cleaner at Tai Wai Transport City Building. Authorities declared the day before that a small-scale outbreak had occurred there.

Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan from the Centre for Health Protection said the cleaner worked on all the floors of the building and has been in quarantine since Sunday.

“We don’t know whether there’s anything happened before she was admitted to the quarantine centre, so that’s why we test all the tenants of the whole building,” Chuang said.

“We gave out more than 400 deep throat saliva bottles for them to test and we will collect them in these two days. We have identified 25 close contacts on the sixth floor, and will send them to the quarantine centre,” she said.

Many of the cases were linked to the sixth floor of the building, involving at least four of the 12 businesses there.

The total number of coronavirus cases – at six – returned to single-digits on Tuesday. Half were local cases and the other half imported ones.

Two of the three local infections – including that of the cleaner – were linked to previous cases.

Chuang also reminded people to remain on alert, even as social-distancing restrictions are being relaxed gradually.

“I think any social activities, any social gathering, may lead to a rebound if we are not careful enough and maintain a certain extent of social distancing, and hygiene, and masks,” she said.