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  • Coronavirus: Hong Kong officials investigating quarantine hotel over cleaner’s variant infection as city logs 11 cases | South China Morning Post
    https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3139554/coronavirus-hong-kong-officials-launch-probe

    Coronavirus: Hong Kong officials investigating quarantine hotel over cleaner’s variant infection as city logs 11 cases. Investigators scrambling to avoid a feared community spread of a more infectious Covid-19 strain. Ten imported cases recorded, the most in a single day since April 29, with eight involving arrivals from BritainOfficials are focusing their efforts on Bridal Tea House Hotel in Yau Ma Tei as part of their investigations into a cleaner’s variant infection.
    Officials are focusing their efforts on Bridal Tea House Hotel in Yau Ma Tei as part of their investigations into a cleaner’s variant infection. Photo: Google Map. Hong Kong health officials visited a quarantine hotel on Friday to investigate whether the case of a cleaner who tested positive for a Covid-19 variant involved environmental contamination or screening errors.
    The probe into the case involving a more infectious variant emerged as a medical expert urged all employees of designated quarantine hotels to get vaccinated against the coronavirus. The cleaner was classified as a local untraceable case and was among 11 new infections announced by health authorities. The remaining 10 were all imported, the most in a single day since April 29. Eight of the infections involved arrivals from Britain, one from Indonesia and another from RussiaThe city’s tally of confirmed cases stands at 11,938, with 211 related deaths.
    Authorities said the 41-year-old woman – who worked part time as a cleaner at Bridal Tea House Hotel in Yau Ma Tei – earlier tested negative for both the coronavirus and antibodies against the virus at hospital, raising the possibility she had not been infected.Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan, head of the communicable disease branch at the Centre for Health Protection, said the worker on Wednesday cleaned the room of someone also found with the L452R mutant strain. Later that day she was swabbed under regular testing in place for hotel employees.Chuang said that investigation at the Yau Ma Tei hotel involved the centre and government pandemic adviser Professor Yuen Kwok-yung.The patient, who tested preliminary-positive for the coronavirus on Thursday, has no recent travel history.
    The woman also worked part time as a cleaner at Bluejay Residences in Ap Lei Chau and at House 2, 12A South Bay Road in Repulse Bay.
    Hung, co-convenor of the Expert Committee on Clinical Events Assessment Following Covid-19 Immunisation, said tracing the source of the infection was important but also expressed his faith in the anti-epidemic measures in hotels designated for quarantine.“But the most important thing is hotel staff should all get vaccinated as soon as possible because they can only get very good protection through the injection, particularly when we talk about the variants,” he told a radio show.
    A 47-year-old foreign domestic helper who arrived from Indonesia and underwent her quarantine in the Bridal Tea House Hotel was among the Covid-19 cases confirmed on Monday.The woman from Indonesia developed symptoms on June 26 and was found with the same L452R mutant strain.The latest development has complicated the city’s plans to relaunch quarantine-free travel with Macau, as the health authority in the casino city said on Thursday the border with Hong Kong could only reopen if the international finance hub had not recorded any local coronavirus infections or import-linked cases for 14 days. The last time Hong Kong recorded a community case was on June 7.The new criteria represents a change from last month when Macau authorities said Hong Kong visitors could be exempted from quarantine if the city achieved 28 straight days of zero local infections, which means a complete absence of untraceable community cases.Andy Wu Keng-kuong, president of the Travel Industry Council of Macau, said the new case, if confirmed, might introduce uncertainty to the planned reopening of the border, but added it would depend on how experts later classified the case.

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