Prognosis
Some Hong Kong Officials Avoid Quarantine on False Positive Test
- About 80 of 180 Party attendees not at risk, official says
- One of two preliminary positive tests found to be false
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Some Hong Kong government officials who attended a large birthday party that emerged as a Covid-19 cluster may avoid the city’s spartan quarantine camp after a surprising turn of events.
One of the two people who were at the party and tested positive for the virus was found to be a false positive, microbiology and infectious disease expert Yuen Kwok-yung and Albert Au, an official at the government’s Center for Health Protection, said at a briefing on Saturday. About 80 of some 180 people who were at the event and in contact with the woman, an anchor for broadcaster Radio Television Hong Kong, are not at risk of catching the virus, they said.