Hong Kong: no new virus cases confirmed

Health authorities in Hong Kong said on Thursday there have been no further cases of the new coronavirus found - 10 cases in total had been confirmed by Wednesday evening.

Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan, Head of Communicable Disease Branch, at the Centre for Health Protection, Department of Health told reporters at a news conference that of the 10 cases, 3 were female and 7 were male.

She added there were a further 41 people in isolation at Lady MacLehose Holiday Village - a venue which was also used as a quarantine facility in 2003, during the outbreak of the SARS virus. One of the 10 confirmed cases was in critical condition.