(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) Hong Kong's confirmed diagnoses fell for two consecutive days, double-digit growth and death cases increased to 41
China News Service, Hong Kong, August 4 (Reporter Han Xingtong) The Health Protection Center of the Department of Health of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government announced on the 4th that 80 new cases of new coronary pneumonia were confirmed, and the cumulative number of confirmed cases increased to 3669. The number of confirmed cases in a single day in Hong Kong dropped to double digits for the second consecutive day. The total number of deaths increased to 41.
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Of the 80 newly confirmed cases, 5 were imported cases. The confirmed cases returned to Hong Kong from Russia, Belgium, and the Philippines. The other 75 were local cases, of which 43 were related to earlier confirmed cases, including about 36 The infection was caused by contact at home or at a gathering of friends. The remaining 32 cases have no known source. Zhang Zhujun, director of the Infectious Disease Division of the Center for Health Protection of the Department of Health, revealed that there are about 50 preliminary confirmed cases.
On the same day, Hung Hom Market and To Kwa Wan Market increased by 2 and 1 confirmed cases respectively, both of which are fish stall owners selling seafood. So far, there have been 10 confirmed cases in Hung Hom Market, involving 4 fish stalls and 2 in To Kwa Wan Market. Fish stall. Zhang Zhujun said that although the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department will carry out a large-scale cleaning whenever a case occurs, it is believed that there is a correlation between these cases, because the stalls where the diagnosis occurred are close, and there may be contact between the confirmed cases, and environmental infections may also be possible Caused by.
For the sake of prudence, the SAR government invited Yuan Guoyong, Chair Professor of the Department of Microbiology, Li Ka Shing School of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, to inspect the relevant markets. The relevant markets will also be closed early today for major cleaning.
Liu Jiaxian, Chief Administrative Manager (Quality and Standards) of the Hong Kong Hospital Authority, announced that in the past 24 hours, 4 more confirmed patients have passed away. So far, 41 patients have passed away. A total of 1,298 confirmed patients are in hospital, 43 of whom are in critical condition, 52 are in serious condition, and the rest are in stable condition. The utilization rate of negative pressure beds and negative pressure wards both exceeded 75%.
In addition, an 81-year-old male patient with a long-term illness was initially diagnosed when he went to the Accident and Emergency Department of Kwong Wah Hospital with fever on August 3. As early as July 22, the patient went to Guanghua Hospital for gastrointestinal problems and was admitted to the internal medicine monitoring ward. At that time, his virus test result was negative, and he was transferred to the internal medicine general ward. He was discharged on July 29. Liu Jiaxian revealed that after contact tracing, it was found that a person was diagnosed in the same case in the internal medical monitoring ward where the patient had been admitted earlier. At present, a total of 7 patients in the general internal medicine ward are classified as close contacts. (Finish)