No Confirmed Cases Found After Latest Lockdowns

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2021-03-16 HKT 09:44

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  • All residents were required to get tested for the virus and stay home until the operation was completed. File photo: Shutterstock

    All residents were required to get tested for the virus and stay home until the operation was completed. File photo: Shutterstock

Health officials said on Tuesday that they had tested about 470 residents of buildings in an area of Sai Ying Pun after an ambush-style lockdown, but no confirmed cases had been found.

The ambush-style lock-down covered Manifold Court on Pok Fu Lam Road; Truelight Building on Third Street; High Park 99 on High Street; Wing Cheung Building on Western Street; Golden Pheonix Court on St Stephen’s Lane; as well as blocks A and M of Hing Wah Mansion at Babington Path.

All residents were required to get tested for the virus and stay home until the operation is complete. Officials said the compulsory testing exercise ended at about 7.30am.

This is the third straight night of lockdowns in the area, with concerns that a cluster of infections linked to the Ursus gym may have spread to a multitude of residences.

Officials say they expect the operation to be completed by 8 am on Tuesday to allow residents to go to work.

Over the previous two nights of lockdowns, authorities confirmed that a couple who live at Dynasty Court and work at the US consulate, had come down with coronavirus.

So far 122 people have been linked to the gym cluster. Authorities confirmed 30 new Covid-19 infections on Monday.

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