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Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection (CHP) reported on late Wednesday three more newly confirmed COVID-19 cases and updated the total number of the confirmed cases in Hong Kong to 129.
The CHP announced at its daily press briefing in the afternoon that six people were diagnosed with the COVID-19 and three others were preliminarily tested positive for the virus on Wednesday.
In an updated announcement at night, the CHP said the three preliminary positive cases have been diagnosed as COVID-19 virus infection, bringing the number of additional cases on Wednesday to nine.
Six of the additional cases are related to the cluster involving a tour group from Hong Kong to Egypt announced on Tuesday.
The group, consisting of eight tourists and one guide, traveled to Egypt from Feb. 27 to March 7. The six new cases confirmed on Wednesday, together with the three group members who were diagnosed with COVID-19 on Tuesday, indicate that the whole group have been infected by the virus, according to Head of the CHP's Communicable Disease Branch Chuang Shuk-kwan.
One of the remaining three new cases involves a 22-year-old female flight attendant who was working at the flight CX320 from Madrid, Spain back to Hong Kong arriving on March 8. A female passenger of the flight has been tested positive for COVID-19 virus earlier, and the flight attendant was traced as a close contact of her.
Another new case involves a 36-year-old woman who is the daughter of a 69-year-old male patient diagnosed on Feb. 17. The woman had been sent to the quarantine center as a close contact on Feb. 17 and was under medical surveillance after completing quarantine on March 1. She developed diarrhoea since March 8 and runny nose since March 9.
Chuang said at the briefing that the incubation period of the patient, who had no recent travel history, seems relatively longer.
The last new case involves a 31-year-old woman with good past health who arrived in Hong Kong from Britain on Feb. 29 with her husband and son and stayed at her parents' flat. She developed fever since March 3 and was admitted to hospital on Tuesday.
Her husband has also developed fever and was arranged to be sent to hospital for treatment. Her son and parents are asymptomatic and will be arranged for quarantine.
The Controller of the CHP Wong Ka-hing said at Wednesday's briefing that the COVID-19 epidemic situation is changing rapidly around the globe and Hong Kong has seen multiple imported cases recently. He again urged members of the public to consider delaying all non-essential travel outside Hong Kong.
Lau Ka-hin, chief manager for quality and standards of Hong Kong's Hospital Authority, reported at the briefing that two patients were discharged from the hospital after recovery on Wednesday, bringing the total number of cured COVID-19 cases to 66, while 57 COVID-19 patients remain hospitalized.
