A 23-year-old female employee of Little Boss, a pet shop on Jardine's Street, Causeway Bay, was infected with the Delta AY.127 variant virus, which some experts believe may involve animal-to-human transmission.
Kong Fanyi, a clinical professor at the Department of Internal Medicine of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong, said this morning (18th) that the source of the case of the 23-year-old female pet store clerk is still unknown. The female clerk was already a "water tail" and the virus level was low, and the female clerk has been wandering the community for a week. I believe that there will be no more cases in the next few days, and the transmission chain will be cut off before the Lunar New Year.
Kong Fanyi said on the Hong Kong and Taiwan program "Millennium Times" in the morning that the source of the 23-year-old female pet shop clerk involved is still unknown, and there is a chance that she was infected by passengers who arrived in Hong Kong two weeks ago. invisible chain of transmission.
As for the opinion that the patient may be infected by hamsters in his clinic, he said that the Department of Health is conducting tests, but the possibility is low.
He went on to point out that the staff of the pet store had been vaccinated with two doses of the vaccine, which were relatively protective, and the source of contact with her was asymptomatic and had a low viral load, which could be described as a "water tail" of the disease. Low will also reduce the risk of transmission. It is believed that if there are no more confirmed cases of Delta in the next two days, the relevant transmission chain will soon be broken, and it is expected to bid farewell to Delta before the Chinese New Year.
Kong Fanyi, member of the New Crown Vaccine Advisory Expert Committee and clinical professor of the Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Hong Kong University (File photo / Photo by Luo Junhao)
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As for the 43-year-old Pakistani woman who contracted the virus at the Silka Seaview Hotel, she has infected 9 relatives and friends. Kong Fanyi said that Omicron is highly contagious and can be infected by close contact within 20 minutes, without wearing a mask or wearing it poorly.
He emphasized that to cut off the chain of transmission, the key is to do enough testing and quarantine time, try to catch cases during the quarantine period, and prevent the virus from flowing out of the community.
He also pointed out that the monitoring of hotel ventilation and infection control should be more stringent to prevent outbreaks in hotels.
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Kong Fanyi continued to point out that whether there will be another outbreak in the future will depend on the Department of Health's "virus first" strategy to track down the close contacts on both levels, and all their whereabouts must be tracked, and it will depend on whether there will be any imported cases to contaminate the virus. spread.
He believes that all aircraft have been melted down, and the chance of another outbreak is low, and the chain of transmission should be interrupted around the Lunar New Year.
Kong Fanyi, who is also a member of the New Crown Vaccine Advisory Expert Committee, also pointed out that children's vaccines are facing shortages in the UK and other places. It is a common practice to inject one-third of the adult dose for children aged 5 to 11. The description is scientifically correct and easy to do. But train pharmacists and nurses exclusively to give injections to children.
He hoped that the outreach team will not only vaccinate Sinovac in the future, but also vaccinate the children with Betadine, so as to increase the vaccination rate of children.
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