The Centre for Health Protection today said it is investigating three additional imported COVID-19 cases involving patients who arrived from France and Pakistan.

It is also looking into an overseas case which involves a 17-year-old male who lives at Block 7, Phase 2, Belvedere Garden in Tsuen Wan.

He tested negative in Hong Kong on September 23 and travelled to the UK on September 25 on British Airways flight BA0028. His specimen collected in the UK on September 26 tested positive, but he was asymptomatic. He had received two doses of the BioNTech vaccine on July 1 and 24 in Hong Kong.

Epidemiological investigations and contact tracing are underway. As a prudent measure, the building where the patient stayed in Hong Kong during the incubation period is included in a compulsory testing notice.

Additionally, the centre reminded specified people linked to Block 1, Grand Garden in Repulse Bay, Two Island Place in North Point (excluding G/F and L2 to L4), Tung Yik Building in Yuen Long and Block 20, Fortune Garden in Yuen Long to undergo compulsory testing tomorrow.

In view of two non-locally confirmed cases involving patients who had stayed in Hong Kong, three specified premises are included in the latest compulsory testing notice.

Four schools are also subject to compulsory testing due to outbreaks of upper respiratory tract infection or influenza-like illness.

The Government will set up mobile specimen collection stations in North Point, Repulse Bay, Tsuen Wan and Yuen Long to provide free testing services.

A total of 65 cases were reported in Hong Kong in the past 14 days, all of which are imported.

For information and health advice on COVID-19, visit the Government’s dedicated webpage.