Omicron｜A total of 87 first serious cases have been vaccinated, the man returned to Hong Kong from a trip to Hong Kong in December for diagnosis

Omicron, a variant strain of the new crown virus, has entered the Hong Kong community. A total of 87 Omicron cases have been recorded in Hong Kong.

The Center for Health Protection of the Department of Health announced on New Year's Eve (December 31) that one of the 176 confirmed patients was in serious condition.

According to the information, the patient is a 61-year-old man. He is also the first serious Omicron confirmed case in Hong Kong.

He lives in Block 3, Jinbi Garden, Yuen Long. He departed from Hong Kong to the United Kingdom in early December. He began to develop symptoms on the 19th of the same month. After the United Kingdom returned to Hong Kong on December 20, the sample tested positive.

A female patient who lived with him and returned to Hong Kong on the same flight was also diagnosed with Omicron.

The Centre for Health Protection of the Department of Health announced that a total of 87 Omicron cases have been recorded in Hong Kong, and there are still 176 confirmed patients in the North Lantau Hospital’s Hong Kong Infection Control Center and the Hospital Authority’s Infectious Disease Center. One of them is in serious condition (Case #12548) , The rest is stable.

According to the information, the serious case was a 61-year-old man who was vaccinated with two doses of Forbidex in Hong Kong on July 7 and August 11 this year.

A male resident of Jinbi Garden in Yuen Long was diagnosed with new coronary pneumonia. On December 31, the government announced that he was in serious condition, which was the first serious Omicron case in Hong Kong.

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The patient and a 58-year-old woman who had been diagnosed, lived in Block 3, Jinbi Garden, 11 Shajing Road, Yuen Long, and left Hong Kong for the United Kingdom on December 2nd. The results of the new crown virus test in the United Kingdom on December 3 and December 17 She was negative, but began to develop symptoms on December 19, and he arrived in Hong Kong on December 20 by taking Cathay Pacific flight CX 252 from the United Kingdom. His seat was 17D.

After the man arrived in Hong Kong, the sample at the temporary sample collection center was positive. It was an imported case. Later, he was confirmed to carry the mutant virus strain Omicron.

The female patient travelling with him also took the same flight back to Hong Kong, with a seat of 17G.

The CT value of both persons is less than 20, that is, the virus load is high.

▼December 31, Tianshuiwei Junhongxuan 2 closed area inspection▼

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