Woman Awaiting Deportation Tests Positive For Covid

Health authorities say they're trying to find out how a mainland woman awaiting deportation has come down with Covid-19.

She’s among seven new cases reported in Hong Kong on Sunday.

The 42-year-old was arrested on October 28, and had spent time in Mong Kok Police Station, as well as detention centres in Castle Peak Bay and Ma Tau Kok.

RTHK understands she was taken during an anti-prostitution operation.

Police said four officers are considered to be close contacts with the woman, and they have to be quarantined.

The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) said around a dozen detainees who'd spent time with the patient at the centres will be sent to quarantine.

The remaining six cases were imported from the UK, Indonesia, the Philippines, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates.

Meanwhile, authorities are keeping a close watch on a cluster of preliminary positive infections.

They include a 26-year old woman and a 26-year-old man who had stayed at the Seaview Holiday Resort in Silvermine Bay with six others between October 25 and 27.

A 15-year-old boy – who had dined with the 26-year-old woman during a separate family gathering – also tested preliminary positive.

His school in Fanling will be shut for two weeks for thorough disinfection.

The CHP’s Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan warned there could be more local infections to come.

“For the Silvermine case, so far we have one plus two preliminary positive cases so it’s already an outbreak. We are putting the other close contacts under quarantine and it is possible some more cases will come back positive”, she said.

Last updated: 2020-11-01 HKT 20:37