(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) 33 new cases in Hong Kong

　　China News Service, Hong Kong, January 9 (Reporter Han Xingtong) The Center for Health Protection of the Hong Kong SAR Government's Department of Health held a briefing on the epidemic on the 9th and announced that as of 00:00 on the 9th, there were 33 new confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in Hong Kong, including 1 source. Unknown local case involving a 39-year-old cabin cleaner.

　　There were 33 new confirmed cases, including 27 imported cases, 5 imported-related cases, and 1 local case of unknown origin.

Thirty of the total cases are suspected to carry the mutated strain of Omicron.

　　The case of unknown origin involved a 39-year-old cabin cleaner, who was mainly responsible for cleaning the cabin toilet, changing pillow bags, etc.

Zhang Zhujun, director of the Infectious Diseases Division of the Center for Health Protection, said that the patient had more than a dozen cases on a plane cleaned on January 4, so she may have been infected at work, but genetic analysis was still needed to confirm the source of the infection.

　　As for the 5 imported-related cases, including an employer and couple who were confirmed to be Indonesian foreign domestic helpers recently, they lived in Unit D of Mei Xin Building, Tai Po.

A 66-year-old woman who lives upstairs in the same building (ie, Unit D) in the building was initially diagnosed. She was negative in the earlier "closed area" strong test, and only tested positive for the second strong test.

Zhang Zhujun pointed out that it is suspected that the environmental factors of the building caused the spread.

　　More than 20 new preliminary positive cases were reported that day, including a local case of unknown origin involving a 20-year-old woman who worked in a pharmacy and Sogo department store.

　　Another preliminarily confirmed case belongs to the Wan Chai birthday party group where the confirmed case occurred recently, involving a 43-year-old woman who works in the Tsuen Wan Cable TV Building.

Zhang Zhujun said that before the birthday party, the woman also went to another restaurant with a confirmed patient and several friends.

Zhang Zhujun added that there are about 192 people on the invitation list provided by the birthday party organizer, but some of them will bring friends with them, which the organizer does not know.

Zhang Zhujun appealed to those who visited the birthday party to contact the CHP as soon as possible.

　　Zhang Zhujun also announced that there was a recent case of unknown local origin, involving a 58-year-old supermarket tally clerk. Whole gene analysis found that the gene of this case was the same as the source case of the current outbreak of the "Victoria Garden Dance" group (28 The same as the Cathay Pacific flight attendant, but the Centre for Health Protection has yet to find the intersection of the supermarket tally staff and the relevant cluster of cases, which proves that there may be an invisible transmission chain in the community, and the situation is worrying.

　　In addition, according to the latest figures released by the Hong Kong SAR government, the total number of vaccine doses in Hong Kong currently exceeds 10.2 million, of which the population who has received the first dose has exceeded 5 million, the second dose has been vaccinated more than 4.69 million, and the third dose has been vaccinated. 500000.

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