Hong Kong logged five imported Covid-19 cases on Friday, bringing the city’s tally to 12,030.
The newly confirmed patients were a 52-year-old woman flying in from Sri Lanka, a 24-year-old woman from Tanzania, a 16-year-old girl from Switzerland, a 69-year-old woman from the United States and a 33-year-old man from Bangladesh, according to a statement issued by the Centre for Health Protection.
The woman from the US had been fully inoculated with the Sinovac vaccine in Hong Kong in May. She developed symptoms on Wednesday, according to the center.Meanwhile, a batch of imported fish and its packaging were tested positive on Thursday – for the first time since authorities sampled imported frozen and chilled foods and their packaging since mid-2020 to fend off possible transmissions.
People who had come into contact or handled the fish sold by the fish stall No 4 on the first floor of To Kwa Wan Market from Tuesday to Thursday are subject to a mandatory testing order. They are required to get tested by Saturday. As of Friday, more than 3.63 million people in Hong Kong have received at least the first dose of coronavirus vaccine, which translates into 53.4 percent of the population aged 12 and above in the city. Among them, over 2.81 million have been fully vaccinated. - China Daily/Asia News Network
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