(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Four new cases of New Coronary Pneumonia diagnosed in Hong Kong are returned from Pakistan
China News Agency, Hong Kong, May 7 (Reporter Ruan Wei) Zhang Zhujun, director of the Department of Infectious Diseases, Center for Health Protection, Department of Health, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, introduced on the 7th that four new cases of new coronary pneumonia were diagnosed.
On that day, the CHP held a briefing meeting. Zhang Zhujun said at the briefing that the four infected persons involved an 11-year-old boy, a 47-year-old man, a 29-year-old man and a 40-year-old man, of which the 11-year-old boy was a 29-year-old man Nephew. The four infected people arrived in Pakistan from February to April this year, and returned to Hong Kong on the 6th of this month from Pakistan via Doha flight QR818.
She also pointed out that there are 13 close contacts among the 4 infected persons, all of which were negative in the initial test, and are currently undergoing 14-day compulsory quarantine from Jun 7 in Junyang Village. On the flight taken by the infected person, other passengers' test results were negative.
Four new confirmed cases break the "zero confirmed" for two consecutive days, but Zhang Zhujun said that because the newly confirmed cases were all imported cases found at the airport, the relevant patients stayed in the community for shorter and shorter time. I believe The risk of community communication is also relatively reduced.
Liu Jiaxian, the chief administrative manager of the Hospital Authority, said that 12 more diagnosed patients had been discharged in the past 24 hours. In addition, a patient who had received two tests on April 16 and was negative was re-admitted to the hospital. He was admitted to the hospital on May 5 due to diarrhea. After testing, he was confirmed to be positive. He is now in stable condition.
As of the 7th, the number of confirmed cases in Hong Kong has accumulated to 1044, and there is another suspected case. (Finish)