A man sits on a bollard in the Kowloon side of Victoria Harbour, with a view of the Hong Kong Island skyline in the background on January 27, 2021. (ANTHONY  WALLACE / AFP)

HONG KONG - Hong Kong reported 60 new COVID-19 infections on Wednesday, including 57 local cases, pushing the city’s overall tally to 10,282.

Chuang Shuk-kwan, head of the Centre for Health Protection’s communicable disease branch, said at a briefing that there were 21 untraceable local cases while fewer than 40 tested preliminarily positive.

Chuang Shuk-kwan, head of the Centre for Health Protection’s communicable disease branch, said at a briefing that there were 21 untraceable local cases while fewer than 40 tested preliminarily positive

The three imported cases on Monday were from the Emirates, Kazakhstan and the United States, she added. 

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Chuang said eight confirmed and five preliminary patients were found at eight units of Tung Fat Building Block C in North Point.

Top microbiologist and government adviser Yuen Kwok-yung inspected the building and said that all the 6-lettered and 7-lettered units needed to be evacuated due to vertical transmission.

On the other hand, a restaurant at United Building in Hung Hom, which had been closed since its first case, now had seven of its workers infected by the virus, said Chuang, who appealed to diners to get tested.

Two more patients in the city died from the disease, bringing the number of coronavirus-related deaths to 174.

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 A 67-year-old man, who had chronic illnesses and was hospitalized on Dec 7, died on Wednesday morning, Hospital Authority’s Chief Manager Lau Ka-hin said at the same briefing.

The other death was that of a 56-year-old woman, who also had chronic illnesses and was hospitalized on Tuesday morning, Lau said. 

The patient suffered cardiac arrest on her way to the hospital and her heart rate picked up before she tested preliminarily positive for the virus on Tuesday afternoon. Lau said the patient’s condition deteriorated further and she passed away shortly afterwards.