The restaurant was closed on Thursday (17) after an employee was diagnosed at its Times Square branch.
Hong Kong new crown pneumonia epidemic is still serious, Thursday (17) 96 new confirmed cases, compared with Wednesday (16) slightly up, the cumulative number of confirmed cases directly forced 7,900; another preliminary confirmation of more than 70 cases. Among the newly confirmed cases, local infection accounted for 90 cases, of which 26 cases have no source. Among them, two workers of Maxim’s Bakery were declared to be infected, and two staff members of the same group’s Chiryu restaurant were also infected.
Maxim’s group’s revolving sushi restaurant “Chiyao”, its Causeway Bay Times Square branch posted a notice outside, saying that an employee confirmed the diagnosis, the branch suspended operations from Thursday until further notice. The store has arranged for cleaning and disinfection, discarded all opened or processed food, and arranged for the store’s staff to be tested for the virus. The Times Square branch was closed for three days in March this year after a confirmed customer visited the store, but this is the first time an employee has been diagnosed. The Center for health Protection Infectious Disease Division director Zhang Zhujun said at a press conference, the restaurant has two employees diagnosed, is now closed, involving dozens of people must be quarantined, but how many close contacts are “do not remember”.
Maxim’s pastry factory employees infected with the disease 40 colleagues testing
In addition, Maxim’s Group General Manager of Food Manufacturing Wong Kam-hong Thursday (17) sent a letter to employees pointed out that two employees of the pastry factory Wednesday confirmed the diagnosis, the last day of work were December 8 and 12, their jobs were in two separate work areas, but does not involve the company’s production line.
Wong said the company had immediately cleaned and disinfected the entire plant and arranged for two groups of employees, 40 in total, to be tested for the virus, which came back negative, but the letter did not mention the plant shutdown arrangements.
The police officers who had contact with the body of Li Yinyin may have to be isolated
In addition, the founder of the Justice League, Yvonne Lee, who was described as a “loyal supporter of Leung Chun-ying”, died suddenly on Wednesday and her sample tested positive for Newcastle pneumonia. In a press conference on the epidemic, Hospital Authority Chief Administrative Manager YU Wai-ling mentioned the sudden death of Yvonne Lee. The woman was in “poor condition” on her way to the hospital and was given first aid in the ambulance several times. It was reported that she had developed a fever and cough a week ago, but it was not clear if she had sought medical attention.
For the eight township police station because there are police officers dealing with the incident in the police station grounded, was asked whether the police officers who had contact with the deceased is a close contact, Zhang Zhujun said that the deceased is still a preliminary diagnosis, if the person concerned has contact with the confirmed or close to carry out first aid and other high-risk procedures, if the deceased is confirmed, or will arrange the relevant police officers to the quarantine center, but she stressed that it is not clear the actual contact situation of the police officers at the time.
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