Hong Kong records nine new cases of Covid-19, as scheme allowing residents to return from Guangdong and Macau opens
- A third of Wednesday’s cases are locally transmitted, including a taxi driver with unknown source of infection
- Hongkongers living in Guangdong province and Macau can apply online to come back to the city without having to quarantine
Hong Kong residents in Guangdong and Macau could begin applying to return without needing to quarantine on Wednesday, as the city recorded nine new Covid-19 cases.
Three of the new cases were locally transmitted, one of which involved a 76-year-old taxi driver with an untraced source of infection, taking this month’s cabby cluster to five.
Last working on Monday, the cabby from Yue Tin Court, Sha Tin, drove his own taxi and usually operated in Kowloon.
The other two local cases involved a 50-year-old security guard at Chuang’s London Plaza in Jordan and an 82-year-old relative, who live together in Kwai Shing West Estate, Kwai Chung.
Both infections were linked to another member of the building’s security team, who was confirmed as infected on Saturday.
Two people arriving from Britain were among Wednesday’s six imported cases. The others came from Montenegro, Indonesia, the Philippines and Pakistan.
The latest infections pushed the city’s official tally of confirmed cases to 5,479, with 108 related deaths.
