This photo captures people wearing face masks waiting to cross a street in Hong Kong, April 5, 2021. (LI GANG / XINHUA)

HONG KONG - Hong Kong reported 17 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, the highest daily caseload since April 2, pushing the city’s tally to 11,635.

Eleven of the fresh cases were imported, including five from Indonesia, two each from India and the Philippines, and one each from Pakistan and France, the Centre for Health Protection (CHP) said in a statement.

Five of the local cases belonged to a family cluster detected at Meadowlands in Yuen Long, according to the CHP. 

The last locally infected case reported on Friday involved a 39-year-old woman who lived at Oi Fai House at Yau Oi Estate in Tuen Mun. She was the ninth resident in the block to found with the coronavirus

A couple – a 64-year-old man and a 59-year-old woman who lived at the estate’s Block 19 – was among the five. They are parents of a 29-year-old woman whose infection was confirmed a day before, along with her husband’s. The four people shared the flat in early April.

The 64-year-old man was a driver of No 76 green minibus in Yuen Long and first developed symptoms on April 2. The CHP said earlier that the man could be the source of this cluster.

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Three of their relatives, a 54-year-old woman, a 52-year-old man and a 14-year-old girl who lived at Block 11, were also confirmed infected, bringing the total of patients in the cluster to seven. They had family gatherings in early April.

The girl, a Secondary 3 student at Shung Tak Catholic English College in Yuen Long, attended exams at the school on Wednesday, three days after she developed a cough. The school has suspended face-to-face classes for two weeks.

The 52-year-old man – an employee of Colorich Enterprise – developed a fever on Wednesday. He went to his workplace at Edwick Industrial Centre in Kwai Chung on the same day.

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The last locally infected case reported on Friday involved a 39-year-old woman who lived at Oi Fai House at Yau Oi Estate in Tuen Mun. She was the ninth resident in the block found with the coronavirus.

A total of 138 cases have been recorded in the past 14 days, including 30 local ones, of which seven have unknown infection sources, the CHP said.

Hong Kong launched a COVID-19 vaccination drive on Feb 26. About 648,900 people have received their first dose of vaccine, and about 332,100 have received their second dose so far.