Government staff checks whether a woman who lives in Block 10 of Tai Po Centre has undergone compulsory testing, Hong Kong, June 27, 2021. (PHOTO/HKSAR GOVERNMENT)

HONG KONG - Around 390 residents of a Tai Po building were tested for COVID-19 overnight after 24-year-old women who lives there was confirmed to have caught the Delta variant.

Block 10 of Tai Po Centre was cordoned off at around 7 pm Sunday and all residents of the building were required to stay in their home to undergo compulsory testing.

No new coronavirus cases were found and the testing exercise was complete at around 8:30 am on Monday, the Hong Kong government said in a statement issued Monday morning.

The woman who tested positive for the Delta variant caught the virus from her colleague, who worked part-time at customer services in Uptown Plaza.

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Simple food, including canned food, cup noodles, corn kernels, have been provided to residents subject to compulsory testing, the government said.

Hong Kong’s COVID-19 infection tally stood at 11,917, with 211 deaths.