29th January 2020 – (Hong Kong) Hong Kong has a total of 8 confirmed cases of novel coronavirus. According to sources, there were two new cases of coronavirus in Hong Kong today after a preliminary test is carried out. Both parties are currently being treated in the isolation ward of Queen Mary Hospital.

They are currently waiting for the second test results. Hospital Authority and Department of Health held a press conference this afternoon to express that both patients returned from Wuhan recently and stayed at the Four Seasons Hotel at IFC. They also walked around in IFC Mall.

At around 11.18pm yesterday, an ambulance arrived at the lobby of Four Seasons Hotel at IFC to send the man and woman from Wuhan to Queen Mary Hospital for emergency treatment. They arrived in Hong Kong via Cathay Dragon flight KA853 one day before the Wuhan lockdown. The 73-year-old woman had fever while medical team found the lungs of her 72-year-old husband to be abnormal. Centre for Health Protection expressed that subsequent guests who have stayed in the same hotel room after they checked out will have to be quarantined for medical observation.

Cleaners were sanitising the hotel lobby this morning.

At 8.25pm, there were two more Chinese who were admitted to Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital in Tai Po who were suspected to be infected with novel coronavirus.