Hong Kong adds 6 imported cases to include South Korea and other five countries in designated areas of Group A

(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) Hong Kong adds 6 imported cases, and five countries including South Korea are included in designated areas of Group A

　　China News Service, Hong Kong, December 2nd. Hong Kong added 6 new confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia on December 2, all of which were imported cases.

On the same day, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government announced that starting from midnight on December 5, Finland, Ghana, South Korea, Norway and Saudi Arabia will be designated as Group A designated areas, and the boarding and quarantine requirements for relevant persons arriving in Hong Kong will be tightened.

　　The 6 newly confirmed cases involved 5 men and 1 woman, aged between 22 and 60, who arrived in Hong Kong from the UK, Pakistan, the United States and other places, all carrying the mutant virus strain L452R.

So far, the total number of confirmed cases in Hong Kong has increased to 12,445.

　　There was also a preliminary confirmed imported case that day, involving a 28-year-old female patient who also carried the mutant virus strain L452R.

The patient travelled to the United States on November 20 and tested negative for the virus before leaving Hong Kong.

He returned to Hong Kong from the United States on December 1 and tested positive for the virus at the airport.

　　For the sake of prudence, the SAR government has already carried out compulsory testing on the building where she lives in Hong Kong (Anjian Building, Andian Village, Lam Tin) that night, and her work place and places visited during the incubation period in Hong Kong have also been included in the compulsory testing announcement.

　　On the evening of the same day, the SAR government announced that in response to the confirmed detection of imported cases of Ome Keron in Finland, Ghana, South Korea, Norway and Saudi Arabia, it will designate these areas as designated areas of Group A from midnight on December 5th and collect them. It is closely related to the boarding and quarantine requirements for people arriving in Hong Kong.

　　The SAR government will also require all transit passengers boarding from overseas and Taiwan to have a negative nucleic acid test certificate from midnight on December 8.

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