Heng Fa Chuen named in testing notice as HK sees six imported cases

Hong Kong reported six imported cases on Wednesday, while Block 37 of Heng Fa Chuen in Chai Wan has been named in compulsory testing notice as a patient carrying the virus had lived there before.

The patient is a 43-year-old foreign domestic helper, who had two doses of the Sinovac vaccine in Indonesia in August. She arrived in Hong Kong on September 4 on flight CX2780. She tested negative six times in a row at the airport and in the quarantine facility.

She then moved into her employer's residence at Block 37 of Heng Fa Chuen in Chai Wan on September 25 and tested indeterminate this Sunday. She was then admitted to hospital. Her sample collected on Monday tested positive but her sample collected the next day tested negative. She also tested positive for the antibodies.

The case was later considered as a re-positive case after medical examination. The Heng Fa Chuen block where she lives at and Victoria Park where she visited last Friday and this Sunday have been named in the compulsory testing notice. 

The other cases involved five men, aged 27 to 50, arriving from Ukraine, Pakistan and Russia. Two of them had received two doses of the Sinovac vaccine in Pakistan, while one had received two doses of the Sputnik V vaccine in Russia. The other two from Ukraine were not vaccinated.

A total of 71 cases have been reported in the past 14 days and all of them are imported cases. The city's Covid tally now stands at 12,244.