The Centre for Health Protection says it has found significant traces of the coronavirus in a University of Hong Kong public health laboratory after one of its employees tested positive, RTHK reports. The centre announced late on Sunday that 14 of 37 environmental swabs taken from the lab at HKU's school of public health were found to contain the virus. More than 40 colleagues of the woman, who was confirmed to have the disease on Saturday, have been placed into quarantine, though none of them have so far tested positive for the virus. Health officials have played down the possibility that the woman was infected in the laboratory, saying there was no evidence to suggest she was. Staff there have been tested weekly as a precaution.

Source: The Standard September 21, 2020 00:22 UTC