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The number of confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in Hong Kong continued to decline: yesterday there were 7,218 cases, more than 700 fewer than the previous day. trend of the epidemic and urged the public not to relax. A total of 7 residents and 7 staff members of the Yew Nursing Home and Elderly Day Center in Kwai Chung tested positive recently, and more than 40 residents are to be quarantined. After the long vacation, nearly 1,000 schools reported more than 2,800 positive cases among teachers and students, and a total of 29 classes in 23 schools had to suspend classes for a week.
The number of confirmed cases decreased for 5 consecutive days in a single day. 7,066 local cases and 151 imported cases were recorded yesterday. The latest effective virus reproduction rate at the University of Hong Kong is 1.0814, meaning each person can still infect more than one person. Au Jiarong, the chief physician of the Infectious Diseases Division of the Center for Health Protection, estimated that the number of people who were tested during the long Mid-Autumn Festival and people’s willingness to get tested both decreased. . rallies led to greater prevalence, describing the outbreak as “not quickly reflected in the numbers”. He went on to say that if the increasing trend in the proportion of cases of the Omicron BA.5 mutant viral strain has peaked, it is also one of the factors influencing the development of the epidemic.
10 Residential homes have cases
97 residents to be quarantined
The CHP yesterday received 10 residential care homes for the elderly and disabled, reporting a total of 20 cases, including 13 residents and 7 staff members. A total of 97 residents requested quarantine. Among these, since last Saturday (10), the Yaoji nursing home and day center has subsequently had 7 residents and 7 employees diagnosed with the disease. Ou Jiarong said there is only one floor of the residential building, which is divided into areas A and B. Residents and employees of the two areas will only stay in their own areas. The first diagnosed is an Area B nurse, and then there are two other Area B nurses, two nurses in District B, plus a receptionist and a driver have been diagnosed. Seven other residents of Area B have been diagnosed with the virus. European authorities believed the outbreak was only in Area B, so more than 40 area residents needed to be quarantined.
After the three-day vacation, the Center yesterday received 2,886 positive cases from 991 schools, involving 2,497 students and 389 employees, with each school ranging from 1 to 23 cases. The sampling time of confirmed teachers and students was mostly from last Friday afternoon to yesterday morning, with 424-636 new cases each day.
4 Schools with several classes to suspend lessons
Yesterday 29 individual classes in 23 schools had to suspend face-to-face teaching for a week due to the registration of many cases, including Canaan Kindergarten (Kowloon Tong), Wong Chuk Hang Aberdeen Technical School, Kwai Chung San Shui Association Lau school Cheung and Qi Si (Ma Wan) kindergarten, 2 to 3 classes will be suspended. As for the school which recorded 23 cases in one day, Ou Jiarong said he had no information on which school it was, he just knew there was no class and therefore had to suspend classes. “very big school”.
In terms of deaths, the HA announced that another 10 patients, aged 52 to 95, had died. Ho Wan-xia, the Chief Administrative Director of the Hospital Authority, said it was assumed that the cause of death for two people was related to their own illnesses, including a 52-year-old woman with terminal cancer and an 89-year-old woman. years. old man with cerebral hemorrhage on both sides.
Originally posted on AM730 https://www.am730.com.hk/local/ The number of confirmed cases has decreased for 5 consecutive days – authorities say the outbreak needs to be observed for another two weeks / 338236? utm_source = yahoorss & utm_medium = referral
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