Covid-19: Hong Kong totally overwhelmed by explosion of Omicron variant cases
Hong Kong hospitals are completely overwhelmed by the influx of Covid-19 patients.
AP - Kin Cheung
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Hong Kong, which was only recently affected by the fifth wave of Covid-19 with the Omicron variant, is seeing the health situation worsen day by day.
After 12,000 cases of Covid in two years, 55,000 new cases were recorded on Wednesday, not counting the many undeclared cases.
But the authorities are totally incapable of managing this crisis.
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With our correspondent in Hong Kong,
Florence de Changy
Despite the all-out construction of field hospitals and isolation centers in progress, the hospitals are totally overwhelmed by the tsunami of patients who are surging and who exceed their capacities a hundredfold.
While we are still far from the peak of the epidemic, morgues and crematoriums are also overwhelmed.
Hong Kong is looking for cold rooms because in some hospitals the bodies of deceased patients clutter the corridors.
Although the majority of deaths are unvaccinated elderly people, four young children aged 11 months, 3 years, 4 years and 9 years, have already died.
An abnormally high rate it seems compared to other developed countries, which aggravates the anxiety of families.
With rumors of general confinement imminent, supermarkets have been robbed.
The government has announced its intention to test the entire population with the aim of isolating the sick, but what everyone dreads is being sent to one of the quarantine centers, where the conditions disasters are more like detention centers in total isolation, and where several people have recently attempted suicide.
►Also read: Hong Kong announces that it is taking exceptional measures to try to stem the 5th wave of Covid-19
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