8 COVID-19 cases detected
(To watch the full press briefing with sign language interpretation, click here.) The Centre for Health Protection today said it is investigating eight additional COVID-19 cases, four of which are locally transmitted with unknown sources of infection. The four local cases include an office worker, a foreign domestic helper, a construction worker and a returnee from the Mainland. Of the four remaining cases, three are imported while the other is yet to be classified. The unclassified case is a 56-year-old woman. She returned to Hong Kong from the Mainland through the Return2HK scheme and was confirmed infected while undergoing home quarantine in a subdivided unit at a building in Tsuen Wan. The CHP said that as the woman had never left the building she is likely to be an imported case. However, they needed to wait for more test results before she could be classified. The centre also gave an update on the COVID-19 patient with the South African variant of the viru