Public facilities may be factor in Sha Tin estate virus cluster

The coronavirus may be spreading in Luk Chuen House in the Sha Tin public housing estate, Lek Yuen Estate,  through public facilities, Dr Leung Chi-chiu, who chairs the Hong Kong Medical Association's advisory committee on communicable diseases, believes.

A virus cluster was detected in the old Sha Tin estate from the time a 34-year-old woman, a Kerry Logistics warehouse worker was diagnised as infected.

Dr Leung, also emphasized that those diagnosed with the coronavirus may not show symptoms, and called on health officials to improve testing.

Nine residents of Luk Chuen Estate are now infected. On Saturday, a 33-year-old man with good past health who lives at the No 10 unit in Luk Chuen House, was diagnosed with the virus.
He is a neighbor of the  34-year-old female patient who was diagnosed on May 31. 
All asymptomatic residents of the units 10 and 12  of Luk Chuen House were evacuated on June 4. 
The man was sent to a quarantine center on June 4 and was admitted to Prince of Wales Hospital on the same day due to fever. 
The patient's nasopharyngeal and throat swab, deep throat saliva sample and stool specimen collected during his stay in the hospital tested negative for the coronavirus, the Center for Health Protection said. He then underwent a bronchoscopy on Friday, June 12 due to persistent fever and pneumonia. His bronchoalveolar lavage specimen collected during the bronchoscopy  tested positive for the virus, the CHP said.