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Discharged patient tests positive


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The Hospital Authority today announced that a patient who was discharged from Queen Elizabeth Hospital has tested positive for COVID-19.

 

Another patient who had stayed in the same cubicle has been classified as a close contact and is required to be quarantined.

 

The authority said the hospital was informed by the Centre for Health Protection on March 12 that the 34-year-old female patient had tested preliminarily positive for COVID-19.

 

The patient was admitted to the hospital on February 28. She received an admission screening COVID-19 test according to established procedures and the test result was negative at the time. She was discharged on March 4.

 

Since the patient had stayed at the hospital before the onset of symptoms, the hospital's infection control team conducted contact tracing.

 

The authority said the staff working in the ward concerned were equipped with appropriate personal protective equipment and no high-risk procedures had been performed during that period. Therefore, no staff member has been classified as a close contact.

 

The patient is a nurse of the Department of Medicine & Geriatrics at Kwong Wah Hospital who last worked on February 16.


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