Hong Kong patient received blood from donor with coronavirus

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Hong Kong authorities on Monday said that a patient had received blood from a donor who later tested positive for the coronavirus. 'The blood transfusion service has been tracing the blood he donated and for now found that a patient in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital received a platelet transfusion

Hong Kong authorities on Monday said that a patient had received blood from a donor who later tested positive for the coronavirus.

"The blood transfusion service has been tracing the blood he donated and for now found that a patient in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital received a platelet transfusion," Lau Ka-hin, from the city's Hospital Authority told reporters."The patient who received the transfusion has been transferred to an isolation ward and is being tested as the hospital continues to follow up on the case," Lau said, adding the patient had an ongoing chronic condition.

 

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