Hong Kong reports three more Covid-19 cases, 118 in total

A screen shows a thermographic image of people walking through a temperature screening point at an entrance to Hong Kong International Airport in Hong Kong, China, on Tuesday (March 10). Hong Kong’s Centre for Health Protection (CHP) reported three more confirmed cases of the Covid-19 (coronavirus) on Tuesday (March 10), bringing the total to 118. - Bloomberg

HONG KONG: Hong Kong’s Centre for Health Protection (CHP) reported three more confirmed cases of the Covid-19 (coronavirus) on Tuesday (March 10), bringing the total to 118.

The new patients were all related to outbound trips, according to head of the CHP's Communicable Disease Branch Chuang Shuk-kwan.

Chuang said two of them are the daughter and the domestic worker of a diagnosed female patient, who joined a tour group to India in February, and returned to Hong Kong to live with her daughter for a while, before being diagnosed as being infected in Vancouver, Canada.