Hong Kong reports 57th confirmed case, second cured case of Covid-19

Residents talking an evening stroll near the Waterfront in Hong Kong. The number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 (coronavirus pneumonia) in Hong Kong has increased to 57, while a second patient has been cured and discharged from the hospital, Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection (CHP) said on Sunday (Feb 16). - AP

HONG KONG: The number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 (coronavirus pneumonia) in Hong Kong has increased to 57, while a second patient has been cured and discharged from the hospital, Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection (CHP) said on Sunday (Feb 16).

The 57th Covid-19 case in Hong Kong, which was confirmed on Sunday, involves a 54-year-old man living in the Taikoo Shing neighbourhood on the Hong Kong Island. The man, with no history of travel during the incubation period, sought treatment at private clinic and public hospital after developing fever and cough days ago, Chuang Shuk-kwan, head of the CHP's Communicable Disease Branch, said at the daily press briefing.