There were 5,142 new confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in Hong Kong yesterday, including 390 imported cases, and the total number again surpassed 5,000. The two-and-a-half-year-old boy diagnosed with acute necrotizing encephalitis was admitted to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit of Queen Elizabeth Hospital yesterday and is still in critical condition. According to the HA, a total of 11 critical cases of children have been hospitalized in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit in the past two months.
Su Jinghuan, co-chair of the Hospital Authority’s Pediatric Coordination Committee, said vaccination against the new corona can reduce the risk of acute complications, serious illness or death in children after infection, as well as the risk of sequelae to term after healing. She also pointed out that young children can be infected with the flu and the new corona virus at the same time or have serious conditions and urged parents to have their children vaccinated against the new corona and flu vaccines as soon as possible. possible.
The government today relaxed the upper limit of the “gathering restriction” to 12 people. According to the news, the government believes measures still need to be maintained to reduce gatherings in certain situations or impose additional restrictions when gathering restrictions are waived, such as requiring participants of large-scale sporting events to take a quick test first.
Source: “Reverse isolation” is really difficult
Entry measures were eased to “0 + 3” at the end of last month. The source did not respond positively to the easing schedule, saying only that winter is approaching and the “no time” is loosened at “0 + 0”. The source also pointed out that HA capacity should be considered when easing measures and it is believed that nearly 20% of HA services are still affected, which is not ideal.
Furthermore, the Hong Kong government previously disclosed that it has discussed “reverse isolation” deals with the mainland. It was reported that as the number of confirmed cases in Hong Kong is “really much higher” than in the mainland, along with the risks and difficulties in organizing the manpower and transport process, the measures are described as “not so. as easy as imagined “, admitting that at the moment it is really difficult to clear customs with the mainland.
Originally posted on AM730 https://www.am730.com.hk/local/news-gathering restrictions to keep – children aged two and a half infected with the virus continue to be in critical condition / 343760? utm_source = yahoorss & utm_medium = referral
