According to The Star, during Hong Kong's fifth Omicron wave, a new Covid-19 cluster linked to a hotpot restaurant appeared, while infections linked to an investment bank continued to spread, prompting the evacuation of people of a building after vertical transmission of the virus was confirmed.
Hundreds of people flocked to Covid-19 testing booths in Tuen Mun on Wednesday, with several residents grumbling about long lines and disorganized preparations. Because of the high number of infections, authorities have designated the district as a high-risk region.
During Hong Kong's fifth Omicron wave, a new Covid-19 cluster linked to a hotpot restaurant surfaced. (Photo / Retrieved from Pixabay)
Health officials said sewage testing would be done in Tuen Mun to track the coronavirus's spread, but a run of preliminary-positive cases found across the city suggested a larger, more concerning scenario.
Last Tuesday, they included a 20-year-old University of Hong Kong student who dined at a Japanese hotpot restaurant in Causeway Bay.
Authorities were "concerned" about possible transmission in the Nabe Urawa restaurant, according to Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan of the Centre for Health Protection, because an earlier confirmed case, a 32-year-old woman, had also been there around the same time, separated by a row of tables from the student.
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"Transmission may have occurred in this restaurant, as it has in other locations," Chuang speculated. "As we saw in earlier rounds of illnesses, hotpot may make virus transmission easier due to aerosol dispersal."
