Authorities have evacuated more than 70 people from a rehabilitation centre in Hong Kong over concerns of a possible Covid-19 cluster and confirmed a resident was among 26 new infections logged on Tuesday.
Twenty-one cases were locally transmitted, five of which were untraceable, while another five infections were imported, including ones involving a domestic helper from Indonesia and a family of four from India. About 20 people also tested preliminary-positive for the virus.
The city’s coronavirus tally stands at 10,693 cases. Two more patients succumbed to the disease – an 82-year-old woman with underlying health conditions who died on Monday evening and an 87-year-old man with chronic disease who died on Tuesday night – taking the number of related fatalities to 188.