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Coronavirus: Hong Kong records first untraceable local case involving Covid-19 mutated strain
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Hundreds of residents from Tung Chung’s Caribbean Coast estate will undergo three weeks of quarantine
The patient’s infection carried the N501Y and E484K mutations, both found in strains first identified in South Africa and Brazil
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29 Apr, 2021
Block 11 of Caribbean Coast was locked down for testing ahead of residents being sent to quarantine. Photo: SCMP/Felix Wong
Hong Kong has recorded its first untraceable local cases of a mutated Covid-19 strain. Hundreds of occupants of a 52-storey residential block in Tung Chung have been ordered into quarantine after a woman was confirmed to be carrying two more infectious strains.
April 30, 2021
Block 11 of Carmel Cove was locked down at 7pm.
South China Morning Post
Hundreds of occupants of a 52-storey residential block in Tung Chung have been ordered into quarantine in Hong Kong’s biggest such operation after one of them was confirmed to have contracted a mutated strain of Covid-19 from an unknown source locally for the first time in the city.
Authorities cordoned off Tower 11 of Carmel Cove at the Caribbean Coast housing estate at 7pm on Thursday for a lockdown exercise expected to end at around 7am on Friday after testing of all residents was completed. Occupants will have to undergo three weeks of quarantine in government centres.