HK housing block evacuated after 2 positive for China virus
Medical personnel in protective suits wait near an entrance of a housing block in Hong Kong after two residents have been confirmed to have contracted the coronavirus. – AFP pic, February 11, 2020.
MORE than 100 people were evacuated from a 35-storey Hong Kong housing block today after two residents in different apartments tested positive for the new coronavirus. Residents were forced to leave in the early hours as health officials in masks and white overalls scrambled to work out whether the virus had spread through the complex of some 3,000 people.
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