[ #Covid19HK #hk] A summary of Professor Yuen Kwok Yung’s inspection findings of the Ramada Sai Ying Pun Hotel this evening, as told to media at 10:25pm:

- virus transmission possible during the course of latest positive case’s flight (long shot) or airborne within Q hotel

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YKY:

- transmission unlikely via the hooks (tests all negative)

- air pressure gradient between room and corridor will push air out into corridor

- if a room’s guest(s) have high viral load, that can push the virus out into corridor & into other rooms via opened doors

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YKY:

- latest positive N501Y case: stayed in Room 605

- noted that during her stay, family of three arrivals from India who carried N501Y strain was in Room 602; almost adjacent

- likely airborne transmission

- another positive hotel guest on same floor was in Room 619

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YKY recommends:

- consider extra air purification in corridors

- all hotel Q guests mask up & close windows at all times when their hotel room door is open

- reduce number of people quarantining in hotel

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[Summary only. Some points left out for brevity.]