A man sits on the waterfront of the Victoria Harbor of Hong Kong, May 26, 2020. (KIN CHENG/AP)

HONG KONG – Hong Kong reported three new cases of COVID-19 infections on Saturday, bringing the city’s tally to 1,082. 

All three new patients returned to Hong Kong on Qatar Airways' QR818 from Pakistan via Doha, according to the Centre for Health Protection (CHP) of the Department of Health. All patients – a one-year-old toddler, a 38-year-old father and his eight-year-old son – were asymptomatic.

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Head of the CHP's Communicable Disease Branch Chuang Shuk-kwan told a press briefing on Saturday that so far, 16 patients among 83 passengers on the same flight had been diagnosed with COVID-19, representing a relatively high infection rate of 19 percent.

She added four flight attendants who had cared for the three passengers were classified as close contact and will be placed under quarantine. Eight other flight crew members, including the pilot, tested negative to the virus, she said.

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