Overseas Network, January 20th. The new crown pneumonia epidemic in Hong Kong is severe, and the community has successively appeared in the community of two kinds of invisible transmission chains of new crown mutant viruses, Omicron and Delta.
The Center for Health Protection of the Hong Kong Department of Health announced on the 20th that 16 new cases of infection were reported in Omicron, bringing the total number of people infected with Omicron to 495.
According to the Hong Kong Wenhui.com, the Hong Kong Center for Health Protection confirmed that the genome of one case was completely consistent with the genome of an earlier person who was epidemiologically related to the imported case. The case also had a brief encounter with another case at the Mei Foo MTR station on January 14.
The data also shows that in the past 14 days (January 6 to 19), Hong Kong has reported a total of 283 new crown infections.
So far, the cumulative number of confirmed cases in Hong Kong is 12,907.
(Overseas Network Wu Qian)