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Three buildings named in testing notice over two overseas cases
Three buildings in Mid-levels, Central and Tsing Yi will be named in compulsory testing notice as health authorities are now looking into two overseas Covid-19 cases in the US and the UK
The first case involved a 36-year-old male patient. He tested negative in Hong Kong on August 19 and traveled to the US on flight CX892 on the same day. He developed symptoms there on August 29 and tested positive for Covid-19.
He obtained negative result proof of Covid test on September 7 and returned to Hong Kong on September 11 on flight CX851. He tested negative at the airport on the same day as well. However he tested positive on September 14 and was found carrying the L452R mutant strain.
He had received two doses of BioNTech vaccine on March 23 and April 13 in Hong Kong. He lives at Lyttelton Road, Mid-levels, and last went to work at 18/F, Kinwick Centre on Hollywood Road in Central on August 19.
The second case involved a 16-year-old female patient. She tested negative in Hong Kong on September 4 and traveled to the UK on flight CX251 two days later. She tested positive in the UK on September 9 and remained asymptomatic.
She had received two doses of BioNTech vaccine on July 19 and August 9 in Hong Kong. She lives at Block 9, Villa Esplanada on Nga Ying Chau Street in Tsing Yi. The Centre for Health Protection is now following up on the case with the UK health authority.
These three buildings where they lived or worked at will be named in compulsory testing notice, the center added.
He obtained negative result proof of Covid test on September 7 and returned to Hong Kong on September 11 on flight CX851. He tested negative at the airport on the same day as well. However he tested positive on September 14 and was found carrying the L452R mutant strain.
He had received two doses of BioNTech vaccine on March 23 and April 13 in Hong Kong. He lives at Lyttelton Road, Mid-levels, and last went to work at 18/F, Kinwick Centre on Hollywood Road in Central on August 19.
The second case involved a 16-year-old female patient. She tested negative in Hong Kong on September 4 and traveled to the UK on flight CX251 two days later. She tested positive in the UK on September 9 and remained asymptomatic.
She had received two doses of BioNTech vaccine on July 19 and August 9 in Hong Kong. She lives at Block 9, Villa Esplanada on Nga Ying Chau Street in Tsing Yi. The Centre for Health Protection is now following up on the case with the UK health authority.
These three buildings where they lived or worked at will be named in compulsory testing notice, the center added.
