Hong Kong COVID-19 cases stay high for 3rd day

Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) reported 38 new coronavirus cases on Friday, with 32 of them locally transmitted, according to local center for health protection.

This is in line with a sharp increase that the city has registered over the past three days.

The total number of cases in the city since late January stands at 1,403, of whom seven have died. A total of 1,187 patients have recovered so far after 11 more were discharged in the past 24 hours.

Eleven of the newly-confirmed patients lived in the same building located in Sha Tin. Staff of the center are disinfecting the building and collecting samples of the residents.

The SAR will move forward the start of the school summer break to July 13, Kevin Yeung Yun-hung, secretary for education of the SAR government announced during a media briefing on Friday.