The Omicron variant virus has invaded the community and caused at least two infection groups, including the "Mochizukilou group" with a total of 8 infected people, and the "Victoria Garden Dance Group" with 14 patients or four generations of transmission. .
The epidemic spread to the officialdom, and many officials and others attended a birthday banquet for hundreds of people. Due to the initial confirmed patient at the same venue, the Director of Civil Affairs Xu Yingwei and others had to be quarantined.
Another new case with no origin, a 58-year-old female tally worker in Wan Chai, contracted the virus.
Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor announced that from Friday (January 7), restaurants in Hong Kong will be closed for dine-in dinners for two weeks to fight the epidemic.
How widespread is the new wave of epidemics?
The following maps sort out the whereabouts of each person and a complete list of locations for forced inspections.
The latest mandatory testing sites (January 7) total 38, and a number of high-risk sites are also listed, including a number of restaurants in Wan Chai where cases of unknown origin went to, and restaurants where Hong Weimin, a representative of the Hong Kong People's Congress, held a birthday party. Citizens who visit at the designated time will undergo mandatory testing as soon as possible.
On January 4, a 42-year-old male surveyor at Block 2 of Tsui Ning Garden was diagnosed (case 12767). He worked in Room A, 13/F, Lee and Man Commercial Centre, North Point. During the incubation period, he visited the West on the afternoon of December 30. The M+ Museum in the Nine Cultural District, or as many as 10,000 people, will have to undergo mandatory testing.
Zhang Zhujun, director of the Infectious Diseases Division of the Centre for Health Protection, said that the confirmed mother of the flight attendant's imported case and a friend who was initially diagnosed had breakfast together at Lu Tianyuan Restaurant in Tin Hau on December 31. The Tuen Mun surveyor had the same time at the same time. field.
Earlier, a flight attendant was diagnosed after arriving in Hong Kong and was listed as imported case 12676. Her family member and a 66-year-old woman who lived with her were later diagnosed (case 12754).
A close contact of the 66-year-old female patient was initially diagnosed and lives in Galway Building, Causeway Bay. She danced with Case 12754 and about 20 other friends at Victoria Park and Causeway Bay Community Centre on December 31, 2021.
The number of related cases has increased to 14, including a 37-year-old woman who attended a 100-person birthday party.
In addition, a 43-year-old maid was diagnosed and her employer was also a close contact of case 12754.
The maid developed symptoms including fever, cough, runny nose and sore throat on January 2. On January 4, she was arranged by her employer to move to a foreign domestic helper's dormitory at Lee Dow Building, 177-191A King's Road, North Point. She was sent to the hospital on the same day.
The maid had attended a gathering of foreign domestic helpers, which may lead to a cluster of foreign domestic helper infections.
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As of January 6, a total of 8 people in the Mochizukilou group have been diagnosed, and the relevant cases have visited the above locations.