China News Service, February 9. According to Hong Kong media reports, Zhang Zhujun, director of the Infectious Diseases Division of the Centre for Health Protection of the Hong Kong Department of Health, said on the 9th that there were 1,161 new confirmed cases in Hong Kong, the first time that the number of cases exceeded 1,000 since the fifth wave of the epidemic.

Among the new cases, 8 are imported cases and the rest are local cases.

On the afternoon of February 8, the Hong Kong SAR government announced to tighten the arrangements for epidemic prevention measures, and the "gathering restriction order" was tightened from four to two.

The picture shows the public eating at the restaurant.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Li Zhihua