Taxi driver, cop among 21 new virus patients in HKTwenty-one new confirmed coronvirus patients were reported by Hong Kong health officials today, including 18 locally-infected. Most of the local patients are linked to previously confirmed patients. Four other local patients had been infected from unknown sources. They include a taxi driver, a police officer from Kowloon West Regional Police Headquarters, a supermarket staffer, and a retiree. Chuang Shuk-kwan, Head of the Communicable Disease Branch of the Centre for Health Protection, said Hong Kong also recorded three imported patients, including a returnee from Pakistan, a cabin crew from Ethiopia, and a patient arriving from UK to Hong Kong via Turkey.

Source: The Standard August 27, 2020 09:24 UTC