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[Wuhan Pneumonia · Latest] 65 people diagnosed in Hong Kong

2020-02-19T15:21:37.218Z


The outbreak of pneumonia in Wuhan caused by the new coronavirus has continued, and a total of 63 confirmed cases have been recorded in Hong Kong, of which 2 died. There were 53 Hong Kong passengers diagnosed with the cruise Princess Diamond at the cruise ship in Yokohama, Japan, and the Hong Kong government ’s first charter flight will take off from Tokyo ’s Haneda Airport at 00:45 on Thursday.


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Written by: Lao Minyi, Yun Xiaobin, Chen Qianting, Li Enci, Zhang Meihua

2020-02-19 02:00

Last updated: 2020-02-19 23:12

The outbreak of pneumonia in Wuhan caused by the new coronavirus has continued, and a total of 63 confirmed cases have been recorded in Hong Kong, of which 2 died. There were 53 Hong Kong passengers diagnosed with the cruise Princess Diamond at the cruise ship in Yokohama, Japan, and the Hong Kong government ’s first charter flight will take off from Tokyo ’s Haneda Airport at 00:45 on Thursday.

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The Centre for Health Protection urged that citizens who had eaten on the first floor of Haitian Garden Restaurant (pictured left) from 9 am to 1 am on February 14th should notify the Department of Health immediately if they have symptoms. (Provided by readers)

[22:55] The government submitted documents to the Finance Committee of the Legislative Council, and applied for a 30 billion yuan grant on Friday to set up an epidemic prevention and anti-epidemic fund to deal with the new coronavirus epidemic and be affected by the epidemic or the impact Companies or citizens to provide assistance or assistance.

It is worth noting that the Administration intends to allocate 4.7 billion yuan to the Hospital Authority and set aside another 150 million yuan to support local production of masks. The global search for PPE protective clothing, reserved 1 billion yuan. In addition, 150 million yuan will be used in the fund to set up an emergency warning system, and 50 million yuan will be allocated for home isolation, mainly for "electronic bracelets" for increasing production for quarantine.

[22:11] The Centre for Health Protection of the Department of Health announced that as of 8 pm today, the Centre is investigating three new confirmed cases of coronavirus disease in 2019. So far, a total of 65 confirmed cases have been diagnosed in Hong Kong.

In other words, the two preliminary confirmed cases announced this afternoon, the couple living in Xiaoxiwan Village, have been formally confirmed.

In addition, the Centre also pointed out that the grandmother of the male patient in Taikoo Shing has also been diagnosed. She and her had a meal on the first floor of Haitian Garden Restaurant, 5 Sansheng Street, Tuen Mun, between 9am and 11am on February 14. . The Department of Health urged those who had visited the first floor of Haitian Garden Restaurant during the above hours to call the Centre for Health Protection's hotline if related symptoms appeared later.

[21:48] Cathay Pacific sent two charter flights to Japan to prepare to pick up Hong Kong people stranded on the Diamond Princess. Cathay Pacific sent an internal email earlier, referring to the crew members on charter flights, who need not be quarantined after returning to Hong Kong and can continue to work the next day. However, Cathay Pacific changed its statement tonight, referring to the relevant crew members who will arrange a 14-day vacation after returning to Hong Kong.

[21:45] In Yokohama, Japan, a group of Hong Kong people who can leave the Diamond Princess officially left the cruise ship. The immigration staff will check their documents and identity for them, check their temperature, organize their luggage, etc., and then arrange them to leave the car and go to the airport.

[21:10] Two engineers from the P & T Group, a multinational construction and engineering firm, were diagnosed with the new coronavirus, and the wife and grandmother of the first confirmed engineer were also diagnosed. Oxford University Press said that the engineer's wife works in the publishing house and works in the Kowloon Office at No. 1 Kowloon Bay. All offices have been closed until Friday (21st) and employees are required to work from home.

[21:05] The government stated that the first batch of Hong Kong residents on the "Diamond Princess" cruise ship will return to Hong Kong by special plane tomorrow (February 20) and will arrive at Hong Kong International Airport at 6 am.

[19:50] The Jockey Club announced that on February 23rd at the Sha Tin Racecourse, except for trainers, jockeys, on-duty directors and related staff, only horses will be allowed to race and have been booked in advance in the horse owner's compartment The horse owner entered the racecourse. The Sha Tin Racecourse will only open the 3rd floor of the racing horse main room and some 6th floor of the horse main room, the 1st floor of the horse main room and Shunjun Terrace will be closed.

There will be no race betting service on the race day, and the Sha Tin Club will not provide betting services. All customers are required to undergo a temperature check before entering the racecourse. They are also advised to wear masks on the site.

All off-course betting outlets and telephone betting hotlines in Hong Kong have been temporarily suspended.

[19:24] Deputy Director of the Security Bureau, Ou Zhiguang, met with reporters in Japan. He said that there were more than 350 Hong Kong people wearing, and more than 50 were diagnosed. We have more than 30 close contacts. The remaining people have been successfully contacted by the Immigration Department. More than 230 Hong Kong residents are willing to choose charter flights to return to Hong Kong. 16 people have refused to charter flights at this stage. Others have said they have not decided. He called on undecided people to return to Hong Kong by charter flight. He also said that in addition to tonight (the early morning of the 20th) there will be another charter flight tomorrow.

According to Qu Zhiguang, 46 Hong Kong residents on board were allowed to leave, and 6 Hong Kong people isolated in Saitama Prefecture were separated. A total of 52 people can leave, 45 of whom chose charter flights, and the other 7 will leave on their own. He said that if the seven people wish to leave, they can contact the charter flight tomorrow.

[18:15] The new civil servants will meet outside the citizen's square at the government headquarters to express their dissatisfaction with the government's anti-epidemic policy and cheer up the frontline anti-epidemic teams. The rally has received a notice of no objection.

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The Chinese Embassy in Japan stated that in close coordination with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Hong Kong and the relevant departments of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, the SAR Government will send charter flights to evacuate Chinese passengers to Hong Kong. (Website of the Chinese Embassy in Japan)

[17:30] A passenger of the Hong Kong Westerdam once confirmed a new type of pneumonia after landing aboard, Zhang Zhujun, director of the Department of Infectious Diseases, Health Protection Center of the Department of Health, revealed that according to the information of the shipping company and the Immigration Department, the ship had Of the 36 Hong Kong people, 24 have been tracked, of which 18 are in Hong Kong and have no symptoms. Another 4 are currently in Cambodia, and the remaining 12 are still being tracked.

[17:16] Dr. Zhang Zhujun, Director of the Infectious Diseases Division of the Center for Health Protection, said that there are currently more than 60 new cases of pneumonia in Hong Kong. Follow-up of patients' relationships, addresses or other conditions can be handled by the authorities for the time being. There are "supercomputers" for epidemic tracking and analysis. Zhang Zhujun said that he has communicated with the police. The system is available at any time. If there are more cases in Hong Kong and "the relationship is complicated and important, they will ask them for help."

[16:52] The Chinese Embassy in Japan stated that the cruise Princess Diamond passengers began to disembark in batches. Under the co-ordination of the central government, and closely coordinated by the Chinese Embassy in Japan, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Hong Kong, and the relevant departments of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, the SAR Government will send charter flights to evacuate Chinese passengers to Hong Kong. The first charter flight will take off from Tokyo Haneda Airport at 1:45 on February 20.

[16:45] Zhang Zhujun responded to questions and said that two newly positive cases were reported in Hong Kong. The patient was a couple living in Ruiman Building, Xiaoxiwan Village. He had cough and sputum on February 12. The two had no travels. The husband was 68 years old and his wife was 70 years old. There is no special activity after the onset of the illness. There is morning transportation on weekdays; Mrs. Wu goes to the Buddhist temple on the first and fifteenth days of the first day.

[16:40] Dr. Liu Jiaxian said that the 70-year-old male patient who died in the second case had chronic diseases, diabetes and hypertension, and poor renal function. His condition deteriorated this morning and he was separated at 7:22. Case referral to cause of death study.

[16:38] Dr. Liu Jiaxian, Chief Executive Manager (Quality and Standards) of the Hospital Authority, said that one more patient was discharged today. He is the fifth case in Hong Kong and a 63-year-old male patient.

[16:30] Zhang Zhujun, director of the Department of Infectious Diseases, Center for Health Protection, Department of Health, said that an 83-year-old grandmother of a Taikoo City patient was diagnosed with new pneumonia and she lives in a seaview garden in Tuen Mun.

[16:16] The news indicates that two more people were initially diagnosed with the new coronavirus pneumonia. They are a couple living in Xiaoxiwan Village, 68 years old and 70 years old.

[15:23] A mother-in-law who has undergone orthopaedic surgery at Tuen Mun Hospital has a preliminary diagnosis of new coronavirus pneumonia. 11 medical staff need to be isolated and tested. The information indicates that all 11 people's medical test results were negative.

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[14:30] The father of Mr. Chen, a Hong Kong native, was diagnosed with new-type coronavirus pneumonia on the 16th and is now hospitalized in Chiba East Hospital. He stated that his father lived in a ward with six beds and had a hand-washing tray that provided only frozen water. When admitted to the hospital on the 16th, only he checked in with another confirmed Hong Kong citizen, Mr. Zheng. Later, four more confirmed Japanese people checked in. The ward does not have any isolation facilities.

He said his father was hospitalized for four days without any medication. He asked doctors in Hong Kong that the situation was worrying. His mother, who was a close contact, had been in the cruise room without windows and had not been cleaned and disinfected for many days.

Mr. Chen's mother had a negative test result, but for close contacts, she quoted that close contacts could not return to Hong Kong. Mr. Chen has doubts about which department decides whether the close contacts can return to Hong Kong. He hopes that the Hong Kong Government can send charter flights to return the close contacts to Hong Kong. .

▼ On February 19th, Japan's Diamond Princess cruise ship passengers were allowed to disembark ▼

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[09:45] A spokesman for Princess Margaret Hospital confirmed that a 70-year-old male patient who was diagnosed with the new coronavirus died of her condition at the Princess Margaret Hospital this morning. Details will be announced at today's press conference.

[09:20] It is reported that another death has been reported in Hong Kong. It is understood that the 70-year-old man lives alone in the second village of Shili. The patient fell at home on February 12 and was taken to the Accident and Emergency Department of Princess Margaret Hospital. At the time of admission, he was reported to have shortness of breath and sputum for more than 10 days. He was diagnosed with new pneumonia. After he was admitted to the hospital, he needed a throat insertion, a cardiac injection, and renal replacement therapy. When admitted to the hospital, the patient reported that he had not left Hong Kong. The medical staff checked the records with the Immigration Department and found that he had travelled to and from Lok Ma Chau on the same day on or before January 22. He died this morning.

▼ Diamond Princess broke out pneumonia in Wuhan ▼

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[08:00] As of 8:00 am on Wednesday (19th), 74,240 confirmed cases nationwide with more than 2,000 deaths, a total of 2005 people died, 6,242 suspected cases, and 14274 cured cases; in Hubei, the severely affected area, confirmed cases There were 61682 cases and an additional 132 deaths, which increased to 1921 deaths and 9128 were cured.

[00:25] Two more confirmed patients have been discharged from Hong Kong, and a total of 4 have been discharged. The Centre for Health Protection revealed earlier that patients discharged were numbered 6 and 14 respectively.

▼ Hong Kong's abnormal daily life under the epidemic ▼

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