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Coronavirus: Hong Kong mall K11 Musea to close for two days and all staff to be tested after restaurant outbreak widens
- Saturday’s 33 new cases is the city’s highest daily tally of infections for more than three weeks
- Unprecedented move comes as 15 new infections linked to restaurant, and worker at Cartier store tests preliminary-positive
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An upscale Hong Kong shopping centre will close for two days and all workers undergo mandatory testing for Covid-19, after almost half of Saturday’s 33 new infections were linked to a growing “super-spreading” restaurant cluster at the mall.
The unprecedented move at K11 Musea, in Tsim Sha Tsui, came amid fears of a wider outbreak after an employee at one of the centre’s Cartier stores, who had not been to Mr Ming’s Chinese Dining, tested preliminary-positive.
“We are worried that there has been some hidden transmissions in the entire block of the K11 Musea shopping centre, therefore we will issue mandatory testing orders to all people working there,” Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan, head of the communicable disease branch of the Centre for Health Protection, said.
She urged anyone who had been to K11 Musea from February 19 to monitor their health and get tested.
A spokeswoman for the shopping centre said it had taken the decision to close on Sunday and Monday for a thorough cleaning.
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