Coronavirus: hundreds of Hong Kong households to be screened amid cluster fears after third member of family tests positive
- Preliminary results for husband of grandmother infected with coronavirus are positive for virus; five-year-old granddaughter also has disease
- But officials say plans to restore some normality in city have not changed
Hundreds of Hong Kong households will have to be screened for Covid-19 to tackle a potential new community cluster of infections after family members of a grandmother who contracted the coronavirus locally also tested positive.
Health authorities were also ramping up testing to cover hundreds of workers at the airport as the city reported a new imported case on Wednesday, along with the case of the 66-year-old woman – the first local transmission in more than three weeks – and her five-year-old granddaughter. The woman’s husband tested preliminary positive as well.
Officials called for continued vigilance to minimise the risk of infection, but had no plans to reverse last week’s easing of social-distancing measures and opening up of leisure venues, or to postpone the reopening of schools.
The new local infections, along with the imported case, brought the total number in the city to 1,050. The imported case was a 43-year-old man, who returned from Pakistan via Doha on Qatar Airways flight 818 last Friday, and tested positive on Tuesday, having developed a fever at a quarantine facility.
