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Health chief meets GD delegation

Secretary for Health Prof Lo Chung-mau met a delegation led by Guangdong Provincial Medical Products Administration (GDMPA) General Director Jiang Xiaodong today, with both sides agreeing to further deepen collaboration in relevant areas.    Prof Lo said the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government expressed its sincere gratitude to the GDMPA for its staunch support for Hong Kong in the past, including the implementation of the initiatives of, among others, the measure of using Hong Kong registered drugs and medical devices used in Hong Kong public hospitals in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and streamlining of the approval procedures for Hong Kong registered traditional proprietary Chinese medicines (pCms) for external use to be registered and sold in the Mainland.   The Government and the GDMPA agreed at the meeting to further deepen collaboration on the regulation of Chinese medicines (CM), the formulation of Greater Bay Area Chinese medicine standards,
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Mutant strain case followed up

The Centre for Health Protection today announced that it is following up on a preliminary positive COVID-19 case with the test result involving the N501Y mutant strain.   The preliminary positive case involves a 46-year-old Filipina domestic helper who was asymptomatic. Her source of infection remains unknown.   She travelled to Pakistan with her ex-employer's family in early February and returned to Hong Kong on April 3.   The woman underwent quarantine at Ramada Hong Kong Harbour View Hotel in Sai Ying Pun from April 3 to 23.   Upon completion of quarantine, she stayed in her ex-employer's flat at 31 Tai Wong Ha Resite Village in Tsing Yi between April 24 and 29, before moving to Tower 6, Island Harbourview in Tai Kok Tsui where her prospective employer lives.   She was tested at a community testing centre on April 28 and May 7 and both results came back negative.   In accordance with the requirements of a compulsory testing notice, she was tested again at the community testing centre in Henry G. Leong Yaumatei Community Centre on May 22 and the result was preliminary positive.   The preliminary test result by the Department of Health's Public Health Laboratory Services Branch revealed that the patient was carrying the N501Y mutant strain but not the E484K or L452R mutant genes.   The centre has arranged for the patient’s close contacts to be sent to a quarantine centre. Epidemiological investigations and relevant contact tracing are ongoing.   Considering the risk of infection in the relevant area is likely higher, the Government decided to make a restriction-testing declaration for Tower 6, Island Harbourview.   Starting from 8pm, people in the building subject to compulsory testing are required to stay in their premises and undergo compulsory testing.   The declaration took effect from 8pm and aims to be finished by about 7am tomorrow. People in the area subject to compulsory testing will need to be tested by 12.30am.   They will be arranged to undergo a nucleic acid test at the temporary specimen collection stations set up there, where staff will collect samples through combined nasal and throat swabs.   The Government will arrange door-to-door specimen collection for people with impaired mobility and seniors.   Meanwhile, according to the compulsory testing notice, any person who had been at the building for more than two hours from May 3 to 23, even if they were not present in the restricted area when the declaration took effect, must undergo compulsory testing by May 25.
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