Hong Kong has recorded a history 67 new situations of Covid-19, in a expanding new outbreak which has found the city reintroduce prevalent limitations.

On Thursday night wellbeing authorities explained it was investigating yet another 67 instances from the previous 24 hrs, of which 63 were being regionally transmitted. Worryingly, 35 cases had an not known resource of an infection.

I are unable to say this is a peak simply because commonly you can only say it is a peak afterwards,” the head of the centre for health and fitness protection, Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan, explained to media.

“There is nevertheless a likelihood far more situations are coming.”

Chuang explained most of the recently diagnosed people today live in the Tsz Wan Shan spot and many experienced visited a area browsing centre and marketplace.

“But we also uncovered a couple personnel of the eating places and also the clients checking out the dining places,” explained Chuang.

“Also we observed fairly a variety of taxi drivers and also customer-dealing with employees. Probably they have fulfilled a great deal of folks and also numerous of them like to pay a visit to cha chaan tengs (Hong Kong-type cafes) and neighborhood dining places.”

On Wednesday Hong Kong eating places stopped permitting patrons to dine in and offered takeaway and delivery only in between 6pm and 5am.

Twelve forms of corporations together with gaming centres, fitness centers, golf equipment and karaoke venues ended up also compelled to shut, and group gatherings are capped at 50 folks for community areas and 20 for weddings and company shareholder conferences. General public transport travellers need to dress in masks.

The new outbreak in Hong Kong has also set back again mooted options for a travel bubble with Macau and Guandong province. These coming into Guangdong ought to now deliver evidence of a Covid exam (with a destructive final result) if they want to cross more than the border to mainland China.

10 men and women have died following contracting Covid-19 in Hong Kong due to the fact the starting of the pandemic, and there are now 319 people today in hospital.

Hong Kong continues to be off boundaries to any non-inhabitants, but the federal government has now added even more quarantine demands for citizens returning from substantial hazard regions.