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Quarantine requires for a retirement home's residents and staffers amid 25 new Covid-19 cases recorded
Chuang Shuk-kwan, head of the Centre for Health Protection's Communicable Disease Branch, announced Hong Kong recorded 25 new Covid-19 cases taking the tally up to 10512.
The patients are aged between three months old and 81-years-old.
One new import case is recorded which involves an aircraft crew member who arrived from Belgium. The rest are all local cases and four with unknown sources.
A resident at the Salvation Army Nam Shan Residence for Senior Citizens in Shek Kip Mei is confirmed positive with Covid-19. A staffer there is tested preliminary positive.
About 100 residents and 70 staffers from the retirement home will be sent for quarantine.
The airport's Three-runway System construction site cluster recorded five more cases, including a staffer at the site and four close contacts that have been sent to the quarantine center.
One new import case is recorded which involves an aircraft crew member who arrived from Belgium. The rest are all local cases and four with unknown sources.
A resident at the Salvation Army Nam Shan Residence for Senior Citizens in Shek Kip Mei is confirmed positive with Covid-19. A staffer there is tested preliminary positive.
About 100 residents and 70 staffers from the retirement home will be sent for quarantine.
The airport's Three-runway System construction site cluster recorded five more cases, including a staffer at the site and four close contacts that have been sent to the quarantine center.
