Two residents living on different floors of a high-rise tower called Hong Mei House, in northwestern Hong Kong's Tsing Yi, had been infected with coronavirus , health officials said. In densely populated Hong Kong this could lead to hundreds of people becoming infected in the supposed safety of their own homes. In Hong Mei House, the two initial patients with coronavirus lived 10 floors apart, but were on the same vertical block of apartments -- number seven. Officials wearing protective gear stand guard outside an entrance to the Hong Mei House residential building. Tse Chin-Wan, undersecretary for the Hong Kong Environment Bureau, said on Tuesday that the pipes in Hong Mei House were not faulty.

Source: CNN February 12, 2020 07:53 UTC