NSTworld: More than 100 people were evacuated from a 35-storey HongKong housing block on Tuesday after two residents in different apartments tested positive for the novelcoronavirus (2019nCoV). coronvirus
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.
Police in protective gear wait to evacuate residents from a public housing building, following the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, in Hong Kong. -ReutersOfficials said Tuesday’s relocation of residents in Tsing Yi district was a precautionary measure after a 62-year-old woman on the third floor was found to have the virus. She lived 10 floors below another man who is also a carrier.
Medical personnel wearing protective suits wait near a block's entrance in the ground of a residential estate, in Hong Kong, early on February 11, 2020, after two people in the block were confirmed to have contracted the coronavirus according to local newspaper reports. - AFP“Of course I’m scared,” a 59-year-old resident, who gave her surname as Chan, told AFP.
A medical personnel drives a van in the ground of a residential estate, in Hong Kong, early on February 11, 2020, after two people in the block were confirmed to have contracted the coronavirus according to local newspaper reports.. -AFP
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