4-year-old girl allegedly from PHL tested for coronavirus in HK


A four-year-old girl allegedly from the Philippines was tested for the Novel coronavirus in a Hong Kong hospital over the weekend, a Hong Kong news site reported Sunday.
 
Radio Television Hong Kong reported the girl was kept in isolation and is in stable condition, and that preliminary tests showed she did not have the illness.
 
"The girl, from the Philippines, had traveled (to Hong Kong) with her parents from Qatar and was admitted to Queen Mary Hospital suffering from fever and headaches," the RTHK report said.
 
It quoted the Centre for Health Protection as saying the girl is "being kept in isolation and is in a stable condition."
 
 
Ko was quoted in the report as saying the Hospital Authority will work with airlines to improve health warnings to travelers.
 
Health scare
 
Hong Kong Standard reported on Monday that the girl caused a "health scare" after she showed symptoms such as cough, fever and headache shortly after arrival.
 
She was brought to a private hospital and then isolated at Queen Elizabeth Hospital on Saturday night.
 
But doctors found the girl was suffering from adenovirus, which the Hong Kong Standard described as "a respiratory infection that usually infects young kids."
 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said adenoviruses can "infect anyone" but most cases "are not serious." Their symptoms include fever, diarrhea, pink eye (conjunctivitis or sore eyes), bladder infection or rash illness.
 
The report said the scare came shortly after a male flight attendant who had been in Saudi Arabia from March 4 to 7 showed symptoms of the novel coronavirus.
 
He was isolated and treated at Queen Elizabeth Hospital on March 9 but tested negative and was found to be suffering from the flu.
 
Coronavirus
 
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said a novel coronavirus caused respiratory illness in 15 adults from four countries from April 2012 to February 2013.
 
It caused respiratory illness in 15 adults from Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Kingdom, with symptoms including fever, cough, and shortness of breath.
 
"Among the 15 cases, nine were fatal. One of the cases experienced a mild respiratory illness and fully recovered. This virus is different from any other coronavirus that has infected people and made them sick. Also, this virus is different from the coronavirus that caused SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) in 2003," it added. —KG, GMA News

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

PCG: China’s bullying in West Philippine Sea undermines international law --- Ghio Ong - The Philippine Star

MANILA, Philippines — Letting China sustain its aggression in the West Philippine Sea would make other countries doubt the strength of international law currently being asserted by the Philippines, Commodore Jay Tarriela of the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) said. “Allowing China to blatantly disregard the established rules-based order threatens the very foundation that we all depend on,” he wrote in a post on X last Tuesday. He added, “If we permit this, countries worldwide may forget why this order was created in the first place. Nations could begin to doubt the significance of adhering to international law if powerful bullies can easily violate it.” Tarriela also said defiance of other countries to a rules-based order would result in the prevalence of cruelty. He wrote, “This could lead us back to a time when might makes right, undermining the global structures that keep human greed, savagery and barbarism in check. Such a scenario would not only invite challenges from aggressive ...
Read more

China ships maintain presence in key West Philippine Sea areas --- Michael Punongbayan - The Philippine Star

STAR / Michael Varcas MANILA, Philippines — While Chinese vessels in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) have decreased in number, they have maintained a presence in three key land features where naval and coast guard ships have intensified operations in the past seven days, according to the Philippine Navy. Latest monitoring by the Philippine Navy showed armed ships of the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) maintaining a menacing presence around the grounded BRP Sierra Madre in Ayungin Shoal, Panatag Shoal and Escoda Shoal. According to the Philippine Navy, there are 17 Chinese military vessels and 28 China Coast Guard (CCG) boats spotted inside the country’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) between Sept. 23 and 30, or one vessel more than in the previous week Sept.17-23. Five of the warships were seen roaming around the vicinity of Escoda Shoal, along with 10 CCG vessels and 12 maritime militia vessels (MMVs). There are also two PLAN ships in Ayungin Shoal as well as 10 CCG boats and 12...
Read more

Social media seen as cause of rising intermarriages --- Helen Flores - The Philippine Star

MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO) sees social media as the main reason for the rising number of Filipinos marrying or becoming partners of foreign nationals. In 2022, the CFO recorded 6,854 marriages or partnerships with foreign nationals, a 40.1 percent increase from the 4,891 “intermarriages” recorded in 2021. “First of all, what we see in the increase in the marriage rate of Filipinos or Filipinos with foreign partners is because of social media, (that) is number one; matchings; letters, introduction of their friends,” CFO chairperson Romulo Arugay said at the Bagong Pilipinas Ngayon public briefing yesterday. Arugay said the agency has been registering a high number of intermarriages since 2007, but the figures went down during the COVID-19 pandemic. From over 6,500 Filipinos who married foreign nationals, only 600 are men, he said. Most of them are married to Americans, Japanese, Germans, Canadians and Australians, Arugay said. Arugay warned Fi...
Read more