At least 52 passengers returned positive tests after flight UK6395, operated by Indian airline Vistara, landed in Hong Kong on 4 April . There were 146 adult passengers and seven children on the Vistara charter flight, which was organised by Hong Kong travel company Nanda Travel to return stranded travellers from India. 22 more passengers tested positive today after their Day 12 hotel quarantine test. University of Hong Kong scientists are sequencing genomes from the passenger cluster as part of investigations into whether they were infected on board. Epidemiologist Eric Feigl-Ding from the Federation of American Scientists pointed to recent cross-transmission in hotel quarantine in Australia to show quarantine transmission was possible.

Source: New Zealand Herald April 28, 2021 00:00 UTC