(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Hong Kong added 431 new cases for two consecutive days with a single-day number below 500
China News Agency, Hong Kong, April 25 (Reporter Han Xingtong) The fifth wave of the epidemic in Hong Kong continued to ease. As of 0:00 on the 25th, there were 431 new positive cases of the new coronavirus in Hong Kong in a single day. After 429 cases were recorded on the 24th, Hong Kong The number of new cases in a single day has been below 500 for two consecutive days.
Zhang Zhujun, director of the Infectious Diseases Division of the Centre for Health Protection of the Department of Health of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, announced at a briefing on the epidemic that as of 00:00 that day, there were 431 new cases in Hong Kong, of which 242 were positive for nucleic acid testing and 189 were positive for rapid testing.
Among the new cases, 16 are imported cases and the rest are local cases.
Zhang Zhujun said that the fifth wave of the epidemic in Hong Kong has recorded more than 1.189 million cases so far, and the number of deaths has increased to 9,054. The current mortality rate is about 0.76%.
Liu Jiaxian, Chief Administrative Manager (Quality and Standards) of the Hong Kong Hospital Authority (HA), said that a total of 2,002 confirmed patients are currently hospitalized, of which 2 are in critical condition and 3 are in serious condition.
In the past 24 hours, a total of 11 patients in the HA who tested positive have passed away, involving 5 men and 6 women, aged between 72 and 95. Among them, 6 were not vaccinated against the new crown.
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