Tag Archives: Infection

The traveller’s infection was confirmed on Monday – three other close contacts have all tested negative – the small-scale test tour was part of the government’s programme to ease border controls. Source link

More import controls on the pet trade could reduce animal-to-human transmission of Covid-19, researchers from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) said on Friday, after they found hamsters could contract and spread the coronavirus.The investigation was jointly conducted by HKU’s school of public health and the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation …

About 1,000 inmates and suspects remanded in Hong Kong prisons have tested positive for Covid-19 during the city’s worsening outbreak, forcing correctional authorities to turn one of their buildings into a third isolation facility.The Correctional Services Department (CSD) revealed that as of Wednesday, about 1,000 persons-in-custody had become infected whilst …

When Hongkonger Wong Chui-mei recounts her Sunday night with her family in the cold under a makeshift tent on hospital grounds, she calls it the “worst experience” of her life.The 34-year-old housewife, her three children and her husband were forced to brave the cold outdoors at the Caritas Medical Centre …

Indonesian authorities have declared two villages on Java island red zones and banned livestock movement from the area after the deaths of several farm animals from anthrax, an official said on Friday.Seven cattle and a goat have so far tested positive for anthrax among 15 farm animals that have died …

The second coronavirus case of Gilgit-Baltistan emerged on Wednesday, raising Pakistan’s tally of total confirmed cases to 20. The 14-year-old boy, a resident of Skardu, was held at an isolation centre where he tested positive for the mysterious viral pneumonia-like disease caused by the novel coronavirus. So far 20 Pakistanis have been …