(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Hong Kong adds 3,286 new positive cases of new corona virus

  China News Agency, Hong Kong, October 4th. The Center for Health Protection of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government Department of Health announced on the 4th that as of 0:00 that day, there were 3,286 new positive cases of the new coronavirus in Hong Kong.

  Of the new cases that day, 3,014 were local cases, including 878 positive cases for nucleic acid tests and 2,136 positive cases for rapid tests.

There are also 272 imported cases.

  The Hong Kong Hospital Authority announced that a total of 1,651 confirmed patients are currently hospitalized for treatment, of which 174 are newly confirmed patients.

In addition, eight new confirmed patients have died in public hospitals in the past day.

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