(Fighting new coronary pneumonia) Hong Kong has 4,369 new cases and the outbreak has entered a plateau
China News Agency, Hong Kong, October 7 (Reporter Han Xingtong) On October 7, the Center for Health Protection of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government Department of Health announced that at 0:00 that day there were 4,369 new positive cases. of the new coronavirus in Hong Kong. The Center believes the outbreak has entered a plateau.
Of the new cases that day, 3,983 were local cases, including 1,046 cases positive for the nucleic acid test and 2,937 positive cases for the rapid test. There are also 386 imported cases.
The Hong Kong Hospital Authority (HA) announced that a total of 1,628 confirmed patients are currently hospitalized for treatment, of which 198 are newly confirmed patients. In addition, two new confirmed patients have died in public hospitals in recent days.
Au Jiarong, chief physician of the Infectious Diseases Division of the Center for Health Protection, said the daily number of confirmed cases has fluctuated between 3,500 and 4,500 in the past two weeks, averaging around 3,803 confirmed cases per day in the past week. He said the number of confirmed cases hasn’t shown a significant upward trend, nor has it seen a further decline, so he believes the outbreak has now entered a plateau.
Regarding the imported cases, Ou Jiarong said that over the past seven days, 215 to 386 cases have been recorded each day, a significant increase from the average of around 183 imported cases per day two weeks ago. 8% of the total confirmed cases per day.
Ou Jiarong said that with the easing of measures around the world, the possible emergence of new strains of mutant viruses and the easing of epidemic prevention by citizens, a new, more serious corona epidemic could occur this winter. .
Au Ka-wing pointed out that there have been fewer cases of influenza in Hong Kong in the past two years, so public resistance to the flu virus is low and serious cases may be more likely to occur. You invited citizens to get vaccinated against flu and Covid-19 at the same time.
Li Liye, Chief Administrative Director of the Hospital Authority, said the number of critical and severe cases showed a downward trend this week and the epidemic situation is estimated to develop in a stable direction. (End)
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