(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) More than 55,000 new cases in Hong Kong

  China News Service, Hong Kong, March 2 (Reporter Han Xingtong) The Center for Health Protection of the Department of Health of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government held a briefing on the epidemic on the 2nd and announced that as of 0:00 that day, there were 55,353 new positive cases of the new coronavirus in Hong Kong.

  The Hong Kong Hospital Authority announced that there are currently 6,400 confirmed and preliminary confirmed patients in hospital, 64 in critical condition and 88 in serious condition.

In the past 24 hours, 117 patients have died.

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