People wears face masks walk on a downtown street in Hong Kong, Feb 26, 2020. (VINCENT YU/AP)
HONG KONG - Hong Kong confirmed two more infections of the novel coronavirus on Saturday, bringing the tally in the city to 109.
One of the patients was an evacuee from Hubei province, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak.
The woman, 38, shows no symptoms. She returned to the city on the fourth chartered flight arranged by the government on Thursday.
A 38-year-old woman who returned on a government-chartered flight to Hong Kong this week was found to have contracted the disease
The woman went to Wuhan of Hubei in mid-January to visit her relatives and was stranded there after the city’s lockdown.
READ MORE: HKU expert: COVID-19 fatality rate at 1.4%
She is the first person found to have contracted the disease among all 469 Hong Kong residents evacuated from the province this week.
According to Hospital Authority's Chief Manager Linda Yu, the authority has run tests on 431 returnees among the overall 469. More tests will be conducted, she said.
Another patient of the latest cases is a 73-year-old woman who joined the same tour group as the 105th patient.
She has good past health and lives in Tai Hang. She has all along been asymptomatic. Her husband and domestic helper who live with her are asymptomatic and will be arranged for quarantine.
The husband of the 105th patient who contracted the disease during the trip to India has also been confirmed to have infected the disease.
The 69-year-old man did not travel to India with his wife and does not show any symptoms.
ALSO READ: HK govt urges residents to delay non-essential foreign travel
Speaking at the same news conference, Chuang Shuk-kwan, who heads the Communicable Disease Branch of the Centre for Health Protection of the Department of Health, urged all residents to avoid unnecessary outbound travel as more imported infections had been found in Hong Kong and the disease continues to spread across the globe.
