Pedestrians walk along a pavement in the Kowloon area of Hong Kong on March 17, 2021. (ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP)

HONG KONG - Hong Kong reported 12 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, including four that were locally transmitted, pushing the city’s tally to 11,409.

The sole untraceable case involved an 88-year-old man who developed a fever on Wednesday, the Centre for Health Protection (CHP) said in a statement.

The sole untraceable case involved an 88-year-old man who developed a fever on Wednesday, the Centre for Health Protection said

The retiree lived at Ping Sin House, Ping Tin Estate in Lam Tin, a building which had previously been subject to mandatory testing. The CHP earlier said that the man dined at Chiu Fook Cuisine, a restaurant at Kai Tin Shopping Centre, between March 8 to 14.

The restaurant was visited by other two confirmed patients on March 10. Nine of its workers were under quarantine.

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The imported cases on Tuesday included four from Pakistan, two from the Philippines and one each from Indonesia and France.

An 89-year-old chronically ill man, who was hospitalized on Jan 5, succumbed to the disease on Tuesday afternoon, the Hospital Authority said in a statement. He was the 204th fatality linked to the coronavirus in the city.