There are 3138 new confirmed cases in Hong Kong, and the number continues to decline. Data picture
The number of confirmed cases in the fifth wave of the epidemic in Hong Kong continued to drop. Today, 3138 new confirmed cases were added, including 1589 cases of positive nucleic acid tests, and 1549 cases through the rapid test declaration platform, both of which fell below 2000 . Among them, 12 were imported cases, two of which were detected in quarantine hotels. Since the fifth wave of the epidemic, the total number of confirmed cases has exceeded 1.16 million, of which 730,000 were detected through nucleic acid testing and 430,000 were detected through rapid testing.
There are 90 more deaths in public hospitals, five of which were reported by forensic doctors, bringing the total number of deaths in this wave of epidemics to 8049, and the case fatality rate of reported cases is 0.69%. In addition, due to data lag, the authorities added four men and four women Aged between 73 and 101 years old, he passed away between the 2nd of last month and yesterday. The number of deaths has dropped below 100 in recent days. Liu Jiaxian, Chief Administrative Manager of the Hong Kong Hospital Authority , said that in the past 24 hours, 77 patients died, involving 47 men and 30 women, aged between 41 and 99, 41 of them had no injection, 21 received one injection, and 13 received two injections , Two people get three injections.
A new hospital reported a confirmed case yesterday, involving a resident. Under this wave of epidemic, there are a total of 784 residential care homes for the elderly, accounting for 97.8% of all residential care homes, and 287 residential care homes for the disabled, accounting for 95%. There were 50 and 16 residents in the home and 15 disabled homes, respectively.
Au Ka-wing, Chief Doctor of the Infectious Diseases Division of the Center for Health Protection of the Hong Kong Department of Health, described the recent number of confirmed cases and deaths as continuing to decline, but the current number of confirmed cases is still more than 3,000, which is a relatively high number, reflecting that many people in the community are still diagnosed , and because many of them were diagnosed by rapid tests, which means that the virus load of the patients is high, and there are still multiple transmission chains in the community, and the public is urged to maintain social distance to prevent the epidemic from rebounding. At the same time, rapid tests should also be carried out from time to time in order to detect in time and let the authorities know the infection situation in Hong Kong.
Ou Jiarong pointed out that among the 1,235 confirmed cases analyzed by the Public Health Laboratory Service Office of the Department of Health today, no one was infected with the Delta variant, and another 1,223 were infected with Omicron, and the remaining 12 cases were not completed or the virus load was insufficient for genetic sequencing.
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