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33 COVID-19 cases recorded
The Centre for Health Protection today said it is investigating 33 additional COVID-19 cases, of which 29 are locally transmitted. Among the local cases, five have unknown sources of infection.
Eleven cases involve two workers and nine close contacts from the Tseung Kwan O - Lam Tin Tunnel construction site cluster.
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HONG KONG. A police officer display a banner showing social distancing to prevent the spread of coronavirus at a park in Hong Kong Saturday, Jan. 2, 2020. (AP)
+ January 06, 2021 A FEMALE passenger on board a Philippine Airlines (PAL) flight from Manila to Hong Kong was found to have been infected with the new variant of Sars-CoV-2, Hong Kong authorities confirmed Tuesday, January 5, 2021.
Based on the January 4, 2021 report by the Centre for Health Protection (CHP) of the Department of Health in Hong Kong, the 30-year-old woman is a Hong Kong resident who returned from Manila on board PR300 on December 22, 2020.
By , and Published January 2, 2021 Middle-aged women twirling with their younger, male dance instructors to escape the clutches of boredom has become the defining image of Hong Kong’s fourth wave of coronavirus infections, after the city recorded more than 700 Covid-19 cases linked to dancing and singing venues.
The explosion of cases threw a spotlight on the niche social scene that many in the city knew little about before the outbreak.
Authorities warned of a “super-spreading” event centred on dance clubs across the city after the number of Covid-19 cases tied to such venues continued to grow.
The cluster has ballooned to 732 people – the largest in Hong Kong since the start of the pandemic – quickly eclipsing an outbreak linked to bars and musical performances in March that involved 103 people.