(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) Hong Kong adds 2 imported cases, the total number of vaccination doses exceeds 9.15 million
China News Service, Hong Kong, November 13th (Reporter Han Xingtong) Hong Kong added 2 new confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia on the 13th, all of which were imported cases.
Following the diagnosis of two local crew members who were exempted from quarantine (free of quarantine), another 53-year-old cargo plane crew member was initially diagnosed.
The two newly confirmed cases involved two women, aged 49 and 65 years old, and one of them carried the mutant virus strain L452R.
Both have received two doses of the new crown vaccine.
So far, the total number of confirmed cases in Hong Kong has increased to 12,380.
Following the diagnosis of two local crew members who were exempted from quarantine, another 53-year-old cargo plane crew member was initially diagnosed that day.
The Centre for Health Protection of the Department of Health of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government stated that he left Hong Kong for Germany on November 3 and returned to Hong Kong on the 7th. The result of a test at the Hong Kong International Airport was negative.
Later, the patient was found to be initially diagnosed with a mutated virus strain L452R during compulsory testing in accordance with relevant exemption regulations. The patient had been vaccinated with two doses of Fubital vaccine in Hong Kong and was asymptomatic.
The patient lives in Block 1 of Kaifan House, Tai Kok Tsui, Hong Kong. However, the Centre for Health Protection stated that all three blocks of Kai Fan House use the same entrance and exit. Therefore, the SAR government sealed off Block 1, 2 and 3 of Kai Fan House that night. At the same time, the places visited by patients in Hong Kong during the incubation period will be included in the mandatory testing announcement.
Recently, the Transport and Housing Bureau of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government has expressed great concern about the repeated infections of crew members who have been exempted from quarantine. It has asked airlines to take measures as soon as possible, including adding resident supervisors for cargo aircraft crews to stay outside stations and strengthening independent audits. Ensure that crew members meet the requirements of closed-loop operation to reduce their risk of infection; impose stricter restrictions on the activities of local cargo aircraft crew members during medical surveillance, and specify clearer guidelines, while strengthening supervision to the greatest possible extent Avoid them from contact with the community, etc.
In addition, according to the latest figures released by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, as of 7 pm on November 12, the total number of doses of Hong Kong's new crown vaccination has exceeded 9.15 million, of which more than 4.66 million people have received the first dose of vaccine, and more than 4.46 million people have received the first dose. With the second dose of vaccine, 26,925 people have received the third dose.
(over)