Xinhua News Agency, Hong Kong, March 10 (Reporter Liu Mingyang) The Center for Health Protection of the Department of Health of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government announced on the 10th that as of 0:00 that day, there were 24,390 new cases of new coronary pneumonia confirmed by nucleic acid testing in Hong Kong.

  On March 9, the declaration system for persons with positive results of the rapid antigen test for the novel coronavirus received another 7,012 reported cases.

  According to the Hong Kong Hospital Authority, 180 confirmed patients died in public hospitals in the past 24 hours.