After being tagged as a «highly probable case», the Goldman Sachs investment banker was fortunately later confirmed to be «negative» after hospital testing.

Last week, Goldman Sachs cleared two floors of its Hong Kong-based office at Cheung Kong Center for deep cleaning after an investment banker was tested to be a «highly probable case». Fortunately, the test proved inaccurate. 

«This means that the person’s earlier test result at a private clinic was a false positive,» the bank said in a statement, adding that the affected floors were reopened with immediate effect. 

«The individual has been released from hospital and is not subject to any further restrictions. All employees who were communicated with as part of the contact tracing process are also immediately released from any restrictions.»

Hong Kong is currently undergoing a second wave of coronavirus infections, especially from returning traveler, which led to a single-day high of 48 cases last week. Until the middle of this month when an employee from HSBC was confirmed to be infected, there were no reported cases in the city's banking sector.