(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) Hong Kong adds 16 cases to electrical appliance store salesperson diagnosed and the source is unknown
China News Service, Hong Kong, April 5 (Reporter Han Xingtong) The Health Protection Center of the Department of Health of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government announced on the 5th that there were 16 new confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in Hong Kong. The local case of unknown origin involved a 32-year-old male Fortress Electric. Salesperson, 3 locations were therefore included in the mandatory inspection announcement.
On the morning of April 5, Hong Kong citizens lined up in front of the community vaccination center in the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Park Gymnasium to prepare for the vaccination of Fubitai.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Zhang Wei
The new cases involve 7 males and 9 females, aged between 10 and 42 years old. Among them, 15 imported cases, including 8 people, were found to have the variant virus N501Y. So far, 173 cases have been found in Hong Kong with the variant virus.
A local case of unknown origin involved a 32-year-old man living with his family in Wah Tong House, Yau Tong Village.
He started to suffer from sore throat and eye swelling on March 30, and was subsequently diagnosed by a private doctor for testing.
He works at Fortress Electric in Huifeng Center, Mong Kok, and his last work date is March 22.
The building where he lives and where he works will be included in the mandatory testing announcement.
Director of the Department of Infectious Diseases of the Centre for Health Protection, Zhang Zhujun, said that the wife of the male patient gave birth on March 23. The male patient had been to United Christian Hospital between 23 and 26 of the same month. He had also been to Kwun Tong during the incubation period. Health Center.
From March 28 to April 3, he often went to Lei Yue Mun Market to buy vegetables in the morning.
Zhang Zhujun said that the two previous cases had both been to the same market, and it was suspected that there was an invisible transmission chain there. Therefore, the Lei Yue Mun market will be included in the mandatory testing announcement.
Zhang Zhujun also revealed that there are 3 preliminary confirmed cases, all of which are imported cases.
He Wanxia, Chief Administrative Manager (Patient Safety and Risk Management) of the Hong Kong Hospital Authority, informed that as of 9 am, in the past 24 hours, 6 more confirmed patients have recovered and been discharged. So far, a total of 11,145 patients have recovered and discharged.
There are still 128 confirmed patients in 21 public hospitals and the Hong Kong Infection Control Center of North Lantau Hospital. Six of them are in critical condition, three are in serious condition, and the rest are in stable condition.
In addition, Fubitai vaccine was temporarily suspended due to packaging defects, and a new batch of vaccines has arrived in Hong Kong recently.
The vaccination plan of Fubitel was resumed on April 5. According to media reports, at the Zhongshan Memorial Park Gymnasium in the Central and Western District, a number of citizens who had made appointments for vaccination lined up at approximately 8 o'clock in the morning.
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