No suspected cases of chikungunya fever have been found after authorities screened at least 450 people in a high-risk area linked to Hong Kong\u2019s first local infection of the mosquito-borne disease, a health official has said, urging residents with mild symptoms to seek medical advice.<\/p>\n
The call was made on Monday as authorities plan to hold an interdepartmental meeting on citywide mosquito control, a day after Hong Kong reported the first local case in Diamond Hill. Three schools in the neighbourhood are being inspected to curb the spread of the disease.<\/p>\n
Centre for Health Protection controller Dr Edwin Tsui Lok-kin said at least 450 residents in the Diamond Hill area were assessed on Sunday, with no suspected cases found, but stressed that investigations were still ongoing.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause we now have our first case, there could be others still in the incubation period, or people who already have symptoms but did not visit a doctor because they were unaware of the symptoms of chikungunya,\u201d Tsui told a radio programme.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are taking the initiative to actively investigate, which should give us a higher chance of spotting more cases.\u201d<\/p>\n
The first local case, an 82-year-old woman living in Fung Tak Estate of Diamond Hill, had no travel record during the 12-day incubation period. She is now hospitalised and is in a stable condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No suspected cases of chikungunya fever have been found after authorities screened at least 450 people in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[65296,26534,26539,65297,65294,65289,65295,65291,65293,103,240,61,60,65290,65292,7135],"class_list":["post-106206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-ae-department","tag-centre-for-health-protection","tag-chikungunya-fever","tag-chung-yeung-festival","tag-diamond-hill","tag-dr-edwin-tsui-lok-kin","tag-emily-hung","tag-food-and-environmental-hygiene-department","tag-fung-tak-estate","tag-health","tag-hong-kong","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jasper-chan-fuk-woo","tag-mosquito-control","tag-university-of-hong-kong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}