(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) Hong Kong adds 5,990 cases and the outbreak is steadily declining
China News Agency, Hong Kong, September 22 (Reporter Han Xingtong) On the 22nd, 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 5,990 new positive cases. of the new coronavirus in Hong Kong. The whole point is to clearly see the steady decline of the epidemic.
Of the new cases, 5,827 were local cases, including 1,466 nucleic acid positive and 4,361 rapid test positive, said Au Ka-wing, chief physician of the Infectious Diseases Division of the Center for Health Protection. There are 163 other imported cases.
Ou Jiarong pointed out that it is relatively clear that the epidemic situation is steadily declining. According to foreign experience, when the percentage of cases involving the BA.5 mutant virus rises to over 80%, it will reach a plateau and the number of cases in the community will gradually decrease. You have appealed to citizens who have not completed vaccination against the new crown, especially the elderly and young people, to get vaccinated as soon as possible so that society can return to normal.
Ho Wan-xia, chief administrative director of the Hong Kong Hospital Authority (HA), said there are currently 2,290 confirmed patients in the hospital, of which 245 are newly confirmed patients. Last day there were 17 new deaths involving 9 men and 8 women, aged between 55 and 99, 12 of whom had not completed three doses of the vaccine.
On the same day, Hong Kong SAR Government Medical and Health Bureau Director Lu Chongmao received the seasonal flu vaccine and the fourth dose of the new corona vaccine. , Chen Songqing, the Director of the Department of Health, Lin Wenjian, and the Department of Health Protection of the Department of Health, Xu Lejian, director of the center, Fan Hongling, chairman of the hospital authority, and others were also vaccinated.
Lu Chongmao said the outbreak began to show signs of decline. He pointed out that there has been a major shift in the epidemic since the beginning of the year, meaning the vaccination rate of the public has increased a lot. The overall vaccination rate of the new crown is close to 94%, and over 70% of citizens have completed three doses of the vaccine. Due to the high vaccination rate, the overall number of serious cases and deaths has decreased recently compared to the beginning of the year.
He reiterated that vaccination is the most important way to fight the new corona epidemic. For the health system to return to normal, the economy to return to normal, and to normalize the fight against the epidemic in the future, vaccination is inevitable and necessary. (End)
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