(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Hong Kong added 7,218 new cases in a single day, the number of new cases dropped slightly
China News Agency, Hong Kong, September 13 (Reporter Han Xingtong) The Center for Health Protection of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government Department of Health announced on the 13th that as of 0:00 that day, there were 7,218 new positive cases of the new coronavirus in Hong Kong.
The center said that the number of new cases in a single day has dropped slightly in the past few days.
Of the new cases, 7,067 were local cases, of which 1,934 were positive for nucleic acid testing and 5,133 were positive for rapid testing, said Au Ka-wing, chief physician of the Infectious Diseases Division of the Centre for Health Protection.
There are another 151 imported cases.
Ou Jiarong said that in the past three to four days, the number of new cases in a single day has dropped slightly, and some indicators have dropped slightly, such as the real-time effective reproduction rate of the virus and sewage monitoring data.
However, he also emphasized that the number of new cases in a single day is still quite high compared with that in May, and the epidemic situation is still quite severe, calling on the public to observe epidemic prevention measures.
He Wanxia, chief administrative manager of the Hong Kong Hospital Authority, said that there are currently 2,885 confirmed patients in hospital, of which 343 are newly confirmed patients.
In the past day, there were 10 new deaths involving 5 men and 5 women, aged between 52 and 95, 5 of whom had not completed the three doses of the new crown vaccine.
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