Commuters wear face masks as they travel on a MTR train in Hong Kong on Feb 4, 2020. (ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP)

HONG KONG - The number of novel coronavirus infections in Hong Kong remained at 26 as no new cases were reported on Saturday, according to the Centre for Health Protection.

Two new cases were reported on Friday. The first case involved a 58-year-old man who lives in Zhuhai and developed fever and cough on Feb 4.

The first case involved a 58-year-old man who lives in Zhuhai, while the second invovled a 42-year-old man who lives in The Palazzo in Fo Tan

He returned to Hong Kong on Feb 5, consulted a private doctor on Feb 6 and sought treatment at North District Hospital where he was admitted for isolation on the same day. 

According to the patient’s information, he travelled from Zhuhai to Macao back and forth for work during the incubation period. 

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He returned to Hong Kong via the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge boundary control point on Feb 5 and stayed in Serenity Garden in Sheung Shui with his friend. 

Quarantine will be arranged for his friend who is asymptomatic. 

The taxi driver who drove the patient from Serenity Garden to Wah Ming Shopping Centre in Fanling on Feb 6, as well as another taxi driver who drove him from the shopping center to North District Hospital on the same day have been urged to call the center’s hotline.

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The other case involved a 42-year-old man who lives in The Palazzo in Fo Tan. 

He developed a fever and cough on Feb 3 and sought treatment at Prince of Wales Hospital where he was admitted for isolation. 

According to the patient, he went to Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport from Hong Kong on Jan 22 before onset of symptoms for a flight to Hebei province and returned by air from Hebei to Guangzhou on Jan 26. He visited Macao on the same day. 

He returned to Hong Kong from Macao by ferry on Feb 2. 

A domestic helper who lived with him and has presented symptoms will be sent to Prince of Wales Hospital, while quarantine will be arranged for his friend who lived with him, who is asymptomatic.