Temple-related cases probe ongoing

February 27, 2020

Centre for Health Protection Communicable Disease Branch Head Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan: Concerning the outbreak in North Point’s Fook Wai Ching She temple, we have not yet identified the exact source of the infection, but we suspect it’s transmitted through gatherings and through person-to-person contact, through droplets and other environmental contamination possibly. So we can only identify some patients with earlier onset, but the earliest is only February 8, so the investigation is still ongoing. Because there are still cases with unknown sources in the community, so I cannot predict when the outbreak will die out. But we’re trying every effort to try to contain and delay the spread of the infection in the community.

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The Centre for Health Protection today said it has not identified the source of the North Point temple coronavirus infections and that the investigation is ongoing.

The centre’s Communicable Disease Branch Head Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan made the statement at a press briefing this afternoon.

Dr Chuang explained that nine people had visited the temple and got infected.

She said: “We have not yet identified the exact source of the infection, but we suspect it’s transmitted through gatherings and through person-to-person contact, through droplets and other environmental contamination possibly.”

Noting that there are still cases with unknown sources, Dr Chuang said she could not predict when the outbreak will die out.

“We’re trying every effort to try to contain and delay the spread of the infection in the community,” she added.

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