Hong Kong reports 52 new COVID-19 cases

Hong Kong's Center for Health Protection (CHP) reported 52 new confirmed COVID-19 cases, including 41 local infections, Chuang Shuk-kwan, head of CHP's Communicable Disease Branch, said at a media briefing on Monday.

Of the new local infections, the transmission chains of 20 cases were still unclear and 21 cases were related to patients diagnosed previously, said the CHP. 

The newly recorded cases brought the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Hong Kong to 1,521.

In addition, Hong Kong hospital authority on Monday said that a patient in Queen Elizabeth Hospital had received blood from a donor who later tested positive for the coronavirus.

"The patient who received the transfusion has been transferred to an isolation ward and is being tested as the hospital continues to follow up on the case," a health official told reporters.