Hong Kong’s third wave of Covid-19 kills two more elderly patients as public hospitals warn they could run out of first-tier isolation beds
- City’s coronavirus death toll rises to 14 as another 61 cases are confirmed
- Personal carer who visited more than 10 homes for the elderly and accompanied residents on hospital consultations is among those infected
Fifty-eight of the new infections were locally transmitted, 25 of which could not be sourced, and another three imported cases were recorded from India, the United States and the Philippines, taking the city’s total to 2,018.
The latest fatalities were a 77-year-old man in Tsz Wan Shan, where Covid-19 clusters have been reported, and an 87-year-old resident of a coronavirus-hit care home in the same area.
Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan, head of the communicable disease branch of the Centre for Health Protection, said one of the confirmed cases was a personal carer who accompanied elderly residents from care homes to medical consultations.
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“That staffer visited many elderly people in different homes. It is worrying,” she said.
The 64-year-old woman, who developed a cough last Friday, had accompanied at least seven people to Queen Elizabeth and United Christian hospitals, among others.
