Over 100 residents in Hong Kong block quarantined as infections rise


Workers washING a pedestrian pathway near the Hong Mei House at Cheung Hong Estate in Tsing Yi on Feb 11, 2020. - China Daily/ANN

HONG KONG (China Daily/ANN): Some one hundred residents of Hong Mei House in Tsing Yi were evacuated and quarantined around 11 pm on Monday (Feb 10) after two residents living on two different floors contracted the novel coronavirus.

Experts said it was possible that the virus had been transmitted through a U-shaped trap below a waste outlet of the residential building’s flushing system.

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