Coronavirus: recovering Hong Kong care home patient infected fellow residents, trade body chief reveals, as she calls for extra isolation period | South China Morning Post

A care home representative has urged the government to plug a gap in Covid-19 rules that allowed a recovering elderly patient discharged from hospital to spread the virus to fellow residents, as a rise in the number of infected older people requiring medical attention adds to demand for beds in Hong Kong. The health authorities announced last month that hospitalised elderly people who recovered from the virus had to present a negative nucleic acid test result before they could be discharged from hospital and return to their care homes. But Grace Li Fai, chairwoman of the Elderly Services Association of…