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The Centre for Health Protection said saliva specimen bottles were distributed to residents of a housing estate block in Tsuen Wan today where two of the locally transmitted COVID-19 cases live.
Its Communicable Disease Branch Head Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan told a press briefing that close contacts of the latest confirmed case - a 62-year-old man who is the husband of the 66-year-old woman earlier confirmed infected - have been quarantined.
The couple’s five-year-old granddaughter had also tested positive for the virus.
“We have quarantined those close contacts in the quarantine centre or those who are symptomatic they are now staying in the hospital. So if they can be discharged from the hospital, they will be quarantined in the quarantine centre. That amounts to fewer than 20 close contacts altogether for the three cases.
“So far we have distributed more than 100 salivary bottles to those who might have some non-close contacts or actually some of them who did not have contact exactly with these three cases, to understand the situation.
“We are today, through the Housing Department, distributing the salivary bottles to over 800 units who live in Lei Muk Shue Estate, Block 5, at the residence, so that would have the number of residents in terms of thousands.”
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Source: https://www.news.gov.hk/eng/2020/05/20200514/20200514_172034_636.html?type=category&name=covid19
