Hong Kong fourth wave: three more killed by coronavirus as domestic helper boarding house outbreak sparks fears of virus spreading across city
- The latest fatalities followed the three deaths reported on Monday, taking the toll this week to six and 123 in total
- A cluster linked to a Tai Po boarding house, where a number of domestic helpers lived and visited, has grown from two to 12 patients, including employers
Fears that clusters of Covid-19 could be spreading across Hong Kong are mounting after an outbreak at a domestic helpers’ boarding house, while mandatory testing was ordered at two housing blocks as 98 new infections and three more deaths were reported on Tuesday.
The latest fatalities came after three deaths were also reported on Monday, taking the toll this week to six, and to 123 in total since the pandemic began. The highest number of deaths in a single day was five, recorded on August 1.
Among the latest infections, 30 were untraceable and nine imported. The city’s overall tally now stands at 7,721. The number of untraceable infections dipped from Sunday, when 41 such cases were reported, the most in a single day since the fourth wave began.
Six of the new patients in the cluster were helpers, while the others were members of a family that employed a maid confirmed as infected on Monday. The youngest family member is just six months old.
