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Eleven locations including City’super in Harbour City have been named in a compulsory testing notice as Hong Kong reports seven imported Covid-19 cases on Wednesday.
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The locations were visited by a previous imported case who had stayed in Hong Kong during the incubation period. They are:
1. Café de Coral, Foo Tat Building, 50 Soy Street, Mong Kok
2. Red Tea, 498–500 Nathan Road, Yau Ma Tei
3. Cathay Pacific City, Chek Lap Kok
4. Mobile specimen collection station at MacPherson Playground, Mong Kok
5. Long Win buses running on route number S64 from Tung Chung (Yat Tung) to Airport
6. G/F, 9 Tung Fong Street, Yau Ma Tei
7. Starbucks Coffee, basement of Gala Place, 56 Dundas Street, Mong Kok
8. City’super, 3/F, Gateway Arcade, Harbour City
9. Circle K, 50 Pitt Street, Yau Ma Tei
10. Mannings, G/F, Oxford Commercial Building, Nathan Road, Yau Ma Tei
11. Wellcome, G/F, Yan On Building, 1 Kwong Wa Street, Mong Kok
Details of the notice can be checked here. Those who have visited the locations during the spelled periods have to complete tests by December 24.
The government also confirms that seven imported cases reported back on Monday and Tuesday involved the Omicron variant.
The cases involved six men and a woman aged between 29 and 61. Four tested positive at the Hong Kong International Airport and three during quarantine. Genome sequencing analysis confirmed all carried the Omicron variant.
The new additions takes the total number of Omicron cases in Hong Kong to 34.
On the other hand, the seven new imported cases were six men and a woman, aged between 29 and 61.
Four of them visited the United Kingdom. They have also been to the Philippines, Kenya, United States, Switzerland, France and Morocco.
Among them were a 61-year-old male patient and a 58-year-old female patient who live at Block 3, The Eldorado, Sha Tseng Road, Yuen Long.
They departed Hong Kong on December 2 for the UK, and returned to the city on December 20 by Cathay Pacific flight CX252. They tested positive at the airport and were found to carry the N501Y mutant strain – an indicator that they could be Omicron cases.
As a prudent measure, the places where they resided and visited in Hong Kong during the incubation period have been included in a compulsory testing notice on December 20.
Also, the government announced on Wednesday to tighten quarantine requirements for those who return from Burkina Faso, Cayman Islands and Togo.
They will be put into Group A from December 25 midnight, meaning non-Hong Kong residents will be banned from entry. Only fully vaccinated Hongkongers can return to the city.
