Hong Kong housing block evacuated after virus cluster find

Residents wearing face masks walk outside Hong Mei House as a police officer wearing protective gear stands in front of a cordon at the Cheung Hong Estate in Hong Kong on Tuesday (Feb 11) following the evacuation of more than 100 people from the housing block after four residents in two different apartments tested positive for the new coronavirus. - Officials said the relocation of residents in Tsing Yi district was a precautionary measure after three members of the same family contracted the virus. - AFP

HONG KONG: More than 100 people were evacuated from a Hong Kong housing block on Tuesday (Feb 11) after four residents in two different apartments tested positive for the symptoms of the coronavirus outbreak.

Locals were forced to leave in the early hours as health officials in masks and white overalls scrambled to work out whether the virus had spread through the 35-storey complex that houses some 3,000 people.