3rd Filipina domestic helper tests positive for COVID-19

Dr. Chuang Shuk-kwan, head of the communicable disease branch of the Centre for Health Protection

The Health Department reported that another Filipina domestic worker tested positive for the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on March 4, 2020, making her the third Filipina to contract the virus and the 103rd person to have been confirmed infected with COVID-19 in Hong Kong overall.

Philippine Consul General Raly Tejada said that the migrant worker is in isolation and is still undergoing tests in the hospital.

He added that they have spoken to her and “have ascertained that she is healthy and presently not exhibiting any symptoms.”

Tejada also said that the two other Filipina domestic workers who earlier tested positive for the virus have already recovered but are still in the hospital for further tests.

Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan, the head of the communicable disease branch of the Centre for Health Protection said in a press conference on March 4 that a 57-year-old domestic helper has been confirmed to be suffering from COVID-19. Her employers both tested positive for COVID-19. They lived at Phase 1, The Redhill Peninsula in Tai Tam.

One of her employers is a 26-year-old male, the son of the 57-year-old woman who also tested positive for COVID-19. She was part of the cluster of COVID-19 patients who visited the Fook Wai Ching She Buddhist temple in Maylun Apartments at Northpoint in January or February.

Hong Kong now has 104 cases of COVID-19, with two deaths.