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The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) today said it is investigating 60 additional COVID-19 cases, of which 57 are locally transmitted.

Among the local cases, 21 have unknown sources of infection.

The centre's Communicable Disease Branch Head Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan said at a press briefing this afternoon that several cases were found in a congee shop in Hung Hom.

“For this (congee) shop (in Hung Hom), four of the (COVID-19) infected workers are from the same family - it is a family business - and there are also a few other workers (infected). So this may have caused the infections among the workers. So far we have not identified other cases (involving people) who claim they visited the shop.

“(Because) there are so many workers affected in the shop, there's bound to be some risks to the visitors of this shop. That is why we asked the general public who had visited the shop to get tested.”

The CHP also noted that as eight confirmed cases and five preliminary positive cases of COVID-19 recently occurred at Block C, Tung Fat Building in North Point, involving different units and floors, it is proactively following up on whether the infections are related.

The Department of Health will issue quarantine orders to all asymptomatic residents of units 6 and 7 on all floors of Block C and transfer them to quarantine centres, while symptomatic residents will be sent to hospital.    

The Government had earlier exercised the power under the Prevention & Control of Disease (Compulsory Testing for Certain Persons) Regulation (Cap 599J) to require those who had been at the building for more than two hours from January 12 to 25 to undergo a virus test by January 28.

As a precaution, the Government will require those who had been present at Blocks A, B and D of Tung Fat Building for more than two hours from January 14 to 27 to get tested by January 29.

It also required those who had been present at Hiu Fung House of Fung Wah Estate in Chai Wan, where a compulsory testing notice was issued earlier, to take a second test due to the possible long incubation period of the virus.

Meanwhile, 20 more buildings are now covered by compulsory testing notices, six of which have confirmed and unlinked cases in two or more units in the past 14 days.

The others are in the specified areas in Yau Ma Tei/Mong Kok and Hung Hom, where one or more new cases were recorded or sewage samples tested positive.

The Government will set up several new mobile specimen collection stations on January 28 to provide free testing services.

The mobile specimen collection vehicles at the section of Canton Road between Jordan Road and Saigon Street will be moved to Man Wui Street in Ferry Point in Jordan on January 28 and will provide service until January 30.

For information and health advice on COVID-19, visit the Government's dedicated webpage.