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关键词:in Hong Kong tests positive positive for
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DEPARTMENT STAFF PICKED THE DOG UP THAT EVENING FROM A RESIDENTIAL FLAT AT TAI HANG AND TOOK IT TO AN ANIMAL HOLDING FACILITY AT THE HONG KONG PORT OF HONG KONG-ZHUHAI-MACAO BRIDGE, WHERE ORAL, NASAL AND RECTAL SAMPLES WERE COLLECTED FOR TESTING THE VIRUS.
THE AGENCY SAID IT RECEIVED A REFERRAL FEB. 26 FROM THE HONG KONG DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AFTER THE DOG’S OWNER TESTED POSITIVE. WHILE THE DOG DIDN’T HAVE ANY RELEVANT SYMPTOMS, IT DID TEST A WEAK POSITIVE AND IS BEING KEPT IN QUARANTINE FOR FURTHER TESTING.
FOUR PASSENGERS WHO HAD BEEN ABOARD THE CORONAVIRUS-QUARANTINED DIAMOND PRINCESS CRUISE SHIP HAVE DIED. THE FIRST THREE WERE IN THEIR 80S AND JAPANESE; ONE DIED OF PNEUMONIA, AND TWO DIED AFTER TESTING POSITIVE FOR CORONAVIRUS. THERE HAS NOT BEEN INFORMATION RELEASED ON THE FOURTH.
IN ADDITION TO THE LOCKED QUARANTINE CENTERS LIKE THE PUBLIC HOUSING TOWERS HOLDING HIGH-RISK INDIVIDUALS, LIKE THE EVACUEES FROM THE DIAMOND PRINCESS, HONG KONG ALSO HAS A HOME QUARANTINE PROGRAM FOR PEOPLE CONSIDERED AT LOWER RISK OF INFECTION — FOR INSTANCE, PEOPLE WHO HAD BEEN IN MAINLAND CHINA BUT WERE NOT IN CONTACT WITH A COVID-19 PATIENT. CURRENTLY THERE ARE NEARLY 12,000 PEOPLE IN THE CITY CONFINED TO THEIR HOMES, MOST OF THEM HONG KONG RESIDENTS RECENTLY RETURNED FROM CHINA. THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT MONITORS THEM BY VIDEO CALLS AND TRACKS THEIR CELLPHONES FOR 14 DAYS.
GUESTS WHO HAD ALREADY DEPARTED CAMBODIA SINCE DISEMBARKING WILL BE CONTACTED BY THEIR RESPECTIVE LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENTS AND PROVIDED FURTHER INFORMATION, HOLLAND AMERICA LINE SAID. THE ANNOUNCEMENT COMES AFTER AN AMERICAN PASSENGER FROM THE CRUISE SHIP TESTED POSITIVE FOR THE VIRUS WHEN SHE ARRIVED IN KUALA LUMPUR, PROMPTING MALAYSIA TO BAR THE ENTRY OF REMAINING PASSENGERS FROM THE WESTERDAM.
HOWEVER, AIR CANADA WILL CONTINUE TO OPERATE ITS NON-STOP FLIGHTS FROM VANCOUVER TO HONG KONG, WHICH WILL ACCOMMODATE CUSTOMERS ORIGINALLY BOOKED ON ITS TORONTO-HONG KONG FLIGHTS, THE AIRLINE SAID.
THE LIFE CHURCH COUPLE BOTH DEVELOPED SYMPTOMS AND SOUGHT MEDICAL ADVICE AROUND 25 JANUARY, BUT THEY WERE NOT DIAGNOSED AS COVID-19 PATIENTS BECAUSE OF THEIR MILD SYMPTOMS. AFTER DISCOVERING THE LUNAR NEW YEAR CELEBRATION LINK, INVESTIGATORS SENT THE COUPLE TO THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES FOR TESTS ON 18 FEBRUARY. BECAUSE SOME TIME HAD ALREADY ELAPSED SINCE THEY HAD RECOVERED, SPECIALISTS THOUGHT THEY HAD LIKELY CLEARED THE VIRUS AND IT WOULD BE TOO LATE TO CONFIRM AN INFECTION USING THE PCR TEST. SO, THEY TESTED THE COUPLE USING BOTH PCR AND ANTIBODY TESTS.
"THE GOVERNMENT PLANS TO BRING THOSE KOREANS HOME IF THEY ARE TESTED NEGATIVE FROM SCREENINGS BY THE JAPANESE AUTHORITIES AND ARE WILLING TO RETURN," HEALTH AND WELFARE MINISTER PARK NEUNG-HOO TOLD MEDIA. THE U.S. AND HONG KONG HAVE ALSO ARRANGED FLIGHTS TO BRING ITS PEOPLE BACK. A STATE DEPARTMENT-ORGANIZED CHARTER FLIGHT IS EXPECTED TO LAND IN JAPAN SUNDAY EVENING TO RETRIEVE AMERICAN CITIZENS.
HEALTH OFFICIALS HAVE CONFIRMED THAT SEVEN MORE PEOPLE TESTED POSITIVE FOR CORONAVIRUS TODAY, INCLUDING THREE PEOPLE LINKED TO A TSING YI HOUSING ESTATE THAT WAS PARTLY EVACUATED OVER INFECTION FEARS THIS MORNING, BRINGING THE TOTAL NUMBER OF CASES IN HONG KONG TO 49.
HEALTH AUTHORITIES ANNOUNCED THAT A 96-YEAR-OLD WOMAN HAD PRIMARILY TESTED POSITIVE FOR COVID-19 ON SATURDAY, ALTHOUGH THE TOTAL TALLY OF INFECTIONS IN HONG KONG HAS REMAINED 68 SO FAR. DR. CHUANG SHUK-KWAN, HEAD OF THE CENTER FOR HEALTH PROTECTION’S COMMUNICABLE DISEASE BRANCH, SAID THE WOMAN LIVES WITH HER SON, DAUGHTER-IN-LAW AS WELL AS GRANDDAUGHTER IN FLY DRAGON TERRACE, A PRIVATE ...
AN ISRAELI MAN WHO RETURNED FROM ITALY EARLIER THIS WEEK TESTED POSITIVE FOR THE NEW STRAIN OF CORONAVIRUS, THE HEALTH MINISTRY SAYS. HE WILL BE PLACED UNDER QUARANTINE AT THE SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER IN CENTRAL ISRAEL.
ANYONE EXPERIENCING SYMPTOMS, EVEN IF MILD, AFTER TRAVELLING FROM MAINLAND CHINA, THAILAND, JAPAN, REPUBLIC OF KOREA, HONG KONG, TAIWAN, SINGAPORE, MALAYSIA OR MACAU, IS ADVISED TO STAY INDOORS AND CALL THE NHS 111 PHONE SERVICE.

 

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