The new crown virus epidemic has not peaked. Today (26th), 17,063 new cases were confirmed. Yesterday, 66 people died, and the youngest 19-year-old was a long-term patient. The number of designated clinics has been increased to 17.
Authorities introduced rapid testing to shorten the conditions for close contacts, patients to be released from isolation or to be discharged from hospital.
The Fire Services Department appealed to the public to reduce unnecessary ambulance services, with ambulances waiting up to 26 hours.
[20:02] The driver of the Secretary for Transport and Housing, Chen Fan, tested positive for a rapid test. As Chen Fan's driver, he did not need to contact the public and had no travel history. He wore a mask and complied with relevant epidemic prevention measures at work.
His last work date was February 24.
Chen Fan has recently conducted a rapid test and swab sampling for the new coronavirus, and the results are all negative.
To be cautious, Chen Fan also took a swab sample today.
[18:55] Causeway Bay Market and Fa Yuen Street Market will be closed earlier at 7 pm today and will be closed all day tomorrow.
▼February 26 Epidemic Press Conference▼
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[18:14] The press conference is over.
[18:06] A reporter from Ta Kung Pao asked in Mandarin: Some doctors said that they "accompany the corpse to fight the epidemic", and it was too late to deal with the corpse. Is this true?
When the testing policy is changed, some members of the public think that there is no need to queue up again. Does this cause confusion?
Why is the major policy adjustment only published?
Are there any plans to cooperate with private hospitals to triage COVID-19 patients?
Gao Basheng: Most of the patients who have passed away have not been vaccinated.
Chen Zhaoshi: There will still be a rise in the assessment of the epidemic.
The principle of controlling and suppressing the epidemic is to stay in the public medical system, accept the most suitable patients, and give them to those most in need.
Thank you to the medical staff. The epidemic situation sees that the medical staff are exhausted. I hope that during this difficult time, we will work together to fight the epidemic. The government will launch an implementation strategy as soon as possible.
【17:48】Ming Pao reporter: Close contacts who have tested negative on the sixth and seventh days can be released from quarantine. When will the implementation begin?
What's your comment on the video of the A&E room full of patients?
How many people can the temporary care center provide at the earliest?
How many seats can be freed up by changing the discharge criteria?
66 people died, has anyone waited to die in the emergency room?
Lin Wenjian: Early contact with quarantine requires two injections.
How to arrange it in an orderly manner will be announced later.
Gao Basheng: Changing the discharge arrangement will help the circulation.
It is difficult to assess the numbers at this time.
Patients in the emergency room are also tested for the new coronavirus, and some patients may have other medical conditions themselves.
Appeal for mild symptoms, do not call an ambulance or go to the emergency room.
Most of the public understand and thank the public.
Chen Zhaoshi: There are still tents outside the emergency room, and they still need to be diverted.
But don't want someone to spend the night outside.
[17:40] A reporter from the South China Morning Post asked in English: How long does it take to be discharged from the hospital after changing the discharge criteria for patients?
Some patients in public hospitals sleep underground. How is the situation?
Lin Wenjian: Accepting the rapid test to confirm the diagnosis is based on the experience of the rapid test, which can reduce nucleic acid test resources, and the rapid sensitivity is also high.
Gao Basheng: Doctors will make judgments based on the clinical conditions of the patients, and will not simply decide whether they can be discharged from the hospital based on the number of days of admission.
In the past week, there have been many patients seeking medical treatment, and some citizens who sought medical treatment due to accidents. The situation in the A&E department is very crowded.
[17:32] Wireless reporter: The government's anti-epidemic measures are becoming more and more loose, and the anti-epidemic measures are regressing. Does the government admit that the anti-epidemic has failed?
New anti-epidemic measures tend to be in line with countries where the virus coexists, such as home isolation, rapid testing, etc. Have you discussed with the mainland?
What will the National Nucleic Acid Testing Support Team do when the rapid testing is implemented? Will the national testing strategy change?
It is reported that there will be health care centers from the Mainland coming to Hong Kong. Where will they go to work, who will coordinate, and is there any training?
Chen Zhaoshi: It is still a containment strategy, and the adjustment strategy is not to not contain the containment, but to be more precise.
There are frequent exchanges with mainland experts.
Triage to achieve appropriate treatment, speed up the construction of facilities, and prevent mild cases from becoming severe.
The Labor Welfare Bureau needs a lot of manpower for some facilities, such as those for the elderly, those that cannot be returned to the elderly home after going to the A&E department, Fuk Wing Road and Shek Kip Mei Sports Centre, and the labor and welfare bureau is handling the details.
[17:24] Business reporter: Will the rapid test increase false positives?
Insufficient isolation facilities, will the containment operation only achieve early detection, but not early isolation?
On average, how long does it take for people diagnosed with the disease to receive treatment or help?
Chen Zhaoshi: There is a shunt mechanism according to the patient's condition.
There are isolation facilities under construction and there is central support.
Younger patients, or asymptomatic, can continue to stay at home.
[17:16] NowTV reporter: When will the quick test registration platform be ready?
How to make sure there is a quick test?
How to apply for sick leave?
Chen Zhaoshi: Planning is underway. There will be a platform for registration, but there is no answer when it will be available.
Now that the test is positive, you can continue to do the deep throat saliva test. The most important thing is to stay at home and pay attention to your physical symptoms. You can use the hotline or designated clinics. If you are serious, you may be admitted to the hospital.
Clarification: Nucleic acid testing is still used for the intensive inspection (RTD), and the mandatory testing (CTN) is changed to rapid testing.
Lin Wenjian: Sick leave can be registered with the system.
The isolation and other times are currently calculated based on the sampling time, and the details will be announced later.
【17:10】Liu Jiaxian, Chief Administrative Manager (Quality and Standards) of the Hospital Authority: In the past 24 hours, 66 more patients died, ranging from 19 to 101 years old.
The 19-year-old patient is a long-term ill woman, hospitalized.
Due to the lag in data, 22 more people were reported to have died on February 22-24.
2,326 HA staff have tested positive.
Change the discharge criteria for confirmed patients. Doctors can judge the clinical and home conditions, and they can be discharged from the hospital, but they can only leave home 14 days after the diagnosis.
The need to vacate hospital beds is an extraordinary practice in extraordinary times.
We call on discharged patients to continue to isolate and strictly abide by infection control requirements.
Designated clinics: 9 clinics are currently open, 5 more will be opened on March 1, and three more will be opened on March 7, for a total of 17 clinics, with a daily quota of 3,000.
[17:06] Director of Health Lin Wenjian: 17,063 new confirmed cases and 6 imported cases.
Most of the other local cases are Omicron BA2.
In 1943, the number of residents and more than 600 employees was infected, and the outbreak of large-scale outbreaks exceeded 70 institutions.
[17:02] Director of Fire Services, Leung Wai Hung: Call on the public to reserve limited ambulance service resources for severely and seriously injured patients.
There were 260 ambulances in service at 5pm, but now there are only 182, as 268 ambulancemen from the Fire Services Department have tested positive, while 410 are out of duty due to close contact.
Ambulance waits up to 26 hours.
People with mild symptoms are urged not to call for an ambulance.
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Border control:
People who stay in the nine regions for more than two hours will continue to be banned from entering Hong Kong.
On December 20, the flight circuit breaker mechanism was tightened, and flight landings were prohibited 48 times.
Chen Zhaoshi expressed his thanks again to the Central Committee.
Thanks to the Chinese patent medicine donated by the state, it is being distributed one after another.
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Adhere to medical treatment: If the patient is in a stable condition, he or she can go home or go to other community facilities for isolation according to the conditions of discharge. If the patient is negative on the 14th day, the isolation can be released.
The Shek Kip Mei Park Gymnasium Respite Centre for the Elderly will be put into service on March 1.
Tighten social distancing measures and maintain them until April 20, close the premises, limit gatherings of two people, prohibit gatherings of two or more households in private premises across the family, and tighten the mask order.
Call for staying home to fight the epidemic and reduce the number and frequency of going out.
Call on the public to get vaccinated.
Last night, the Scientific Committee under the Centre for Health Protection has revised the injection interval for vaccination.
People with weakened immune systems can get a fourth shot.
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Early quarantine:
Send electronic wristbands and quarantine advice to patients who are quarantined at home. Citizens with medical needs can call the hotline.
On February 8th, we lived in safety to fight the epidemic. Close contacts and family members who lived with us were subjected to home quarantine on the 14th and 4th. The implementation was generally smooth. More than 20,087 people were quarantined at home, and 5,897 people completed it.
Close contacts have received two injections, and if they test negative on the sixth and seventh days, they can be released from home quarantine or leave the quarantine facility.
[16:36] Secretary for Food and Health Sophia Chan, Director of Fire Services Leung Wai-hung, Director of Health Lam Man Kin, Director of the Centre for Health Protection of the Department of Health Tsui Lok Kin, Chief Executive Officer of the Hospital Authority (HA) Ko Bak Sing, Hospital Authority Chief Administration Manager (Quality and Standards) Lau Ka-hsien meets the press.
Chen Zhaoshi: More than 90,000 cases have been recorded in Hong Kong, of which the fifth wave of Omicron has exceeded 80,000, and the epidemic has not yet reached its peak.
On December 31, 2021, there were 19 new cases, reaching 10,010 yesterday, a geometric increase in less than two months, bringing unprecedented challenges to the medical system.
The SAR government bears the main responsibility for fighting the epidemic. With the support of the central government, it will continue to contain the virus and clear it dynamically, so as to stabilize and control the epidemic in the next two or three months.
Revise mandatory testing strategy: cover more buildings, change to rapid testing, avoid queues.
For high-risk employees, the mandatory test is revised to once every seven days, and rapid test kits are distributed to conduct more frequent tests during the test cycle.
Maintain community testing centers, mobile sampling stations, and provide free testing services.
Citizens who tested positive in the quick test had to undergo nucleic acid testing in the past. The government will register online to speed up support.
We are working on it at full speed, more details will be announced.
▼On February 26th, citizens snapped up the rapid detection reagent▼
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Sau Mau Ping Village Sau Wah Building, Sau Yi Building, and On Ning Garden 5 blocks, a total of 617 people, more than 10% of them in Chu Yang
▼Testing and Diagnosis Seeking Medical Guidelines▼
The hospital seriously forced the nurses to desperately call for help: the patient should go to the emergency room for mild symptoms
[15:24] The epidemic is raging, the number of confirmed diagnoses has repeatedly broken peaks, and public hospitals are overwhelmed. Videos circulating on the Internet show that some hospitals are bursting, and patients have to sleep on the ground. Some doctors and nurses have revealed that some patients are not breathing well enough in the ward. , "I was so shocked, but I called him into an oxygen mask, and it was all bloody phlegm. If you don't pay attention, she will die," and cried for help in desperation: "We don't even have enough N95, and I want to scare a mild case. Patient, don't go to the emergency room again."
Yuan Zhimin, chairman of the Nurses Association, said that the hospital has been vacated to accommodate patients, including the cafeteria and the doctor's lounge, describing it as a "wartime hospital". In this situation, every patient dies, and the rescue is done underground.” He was worried that the number of hospitalized patients was increasing rapidly, but the number of medical staff infected with the virus and the number of medical staff who had to be quarantined continued to increase.
[14:54] Sau Wah Building, Sau Mau Ping Estate, Kwun Tong completed the compulsory testing operation at about 1:00 pm today (26th), and a total of about 2 070 people were tested during the period. When a total of 259 preliminary positive test cases and 36 test results were found For uncertain cases, the Centre for Health Protection of the Department of Health will arrange follow-up, and the rate of early positive cases has risen to 12.5%.
Sheung Shui Slaughterhouse closes the pork stall due to the outbreak of the epidemic
[14:01] Due to the outbreak of the epidemic, the Sheung Shui Slaughterhouse and the Tsuen Wan Slaughterhouse have suspended operations due to the outbreak, and most of the fresh meat in the market has been temporarily suspended.
One of the busiest pork shops outside the San Hui Market in Tuen Mun is closed today (26th), and a sign "Sheung Shui Slaughterhouse will not supply pigs tomorrow, last today" hangs outside the door.
The location outside the door allowed another stall next to it to resell eggs, and a large number of citizens waited in line.
A citizen described it as "it's like a war, everyone is looting and not selling."
[12:51] A government spokesman said that the supply of fresh food imported from the mainland to Hong Kong was generally stable yesterday (25th).
According to the latest information, as of midnight, the supply of vegetables from the Mainland to Hong Kong was about 2,200 tonnes yesterday, which was about 90% of the average daily supply of vegetables from the Mainland last year.
Among them, about 800 metric tons of vegetables from the Mainland supplied to Hong Kong through the wholesale markets of the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD) and the Vegetable Marketing Organization, and the overall wholesale price of vegetables remained stable.
Affected by the epidemic, Sheung Shui Slaughterhouse and Tsuen Wan Slaughterhouse will be temporarily closed from today until further notice.
The Government will take appropriate actions to maintain a stable local meat supply.
As for the overall volume of chilled poultry and chilled pork imported from the mainland to Hong Kong yesterday, they remained at about 90% and 85% of the total Hong Kong supply on weekdays respectively.
The confirmed diagnosis continues to rise to the top of the CUHK Guo Jianan: the hospital burst into flames to promote research and home treatment as a last resort
[11:10] Kwok Kin-an, an assistant professor at the School of Public Health and Primary Care, CUHK, said today (26th) that the Omicron variant virus is highly transmissible, and it is estimated that the number of confirmed cases will continue to rise. He calls on the elderly and children to be vaccinated as soon as possible to increase protection. .
Guo also pointed out that the current medical system has been overwhelmed, and he is worried that even those diagnosed with the need for treatment will not be able to be admitted to the hospital in the future, so the possibility of home isolation and home treatment cannot be ruled out.
He continued that if the oral medicines from Merck and Pfizer could arrive in Hong Kong in March and May respectively, it is recommended that the government actively consider home treatment and isolation as the last resort to deal with the outbreak.
Kwok Kin On (left), Assistant Professor, School of Public Health and Primary Care, CUHK.
(File photo / Photo by Lu Yiming)
Epidemic ｜ Postman confirms initial diagnosis, post offices in Cheung Sha Wan, Discovery Bay and Wong Tai Sin will be closed until March 1
[10:20] Hongkong Post said today (26th) that Cheung Sha Wan Post Office, Discovery Bay Post Office and Wong Tai Sin Post Office will be closed from today until March 1 due to the initial diagnosis of postal staff.
Kong Fanyi expects the peak daily or 30,000 diagnoses in mid-March: 𠵱 There may be 200,000 to 300,000 infected at home
[10:13] The epidemic situation continues to be severe, and the government's virus testing work has been tough, and it changed the guidelines last night (25th) to directly recognize the test results of rapid tests and private laboratories.
Kong Fanyi, co-convenor of the Expert Committee on the Evaluation of Clinical Events of the New Crown Vaccine, said on the radio program this morning (26th) that this move is a good practice, describing the laboratory as "exploding", and the new method can produce test results faster, but there will also be More cases have emerged, and seniors with chronic illness are urged to seek medical attention as soon as possible.
He also predicted that the epidemic will peak in mid-March, when at least 20,000 to 30,000 people are diagnosed every day, but the actual number may be multiple times, and the death toll will further increase.
He emphasized that the key to combating the fifth wave of the epidemic lies in the third shot of the vaccine, which can reduce the risk of severe illness and death by taking all three shots.
Kong Fanyi expects that the fifth wave of the epidemic may peak in mid-March, when 20,000 to 30,000 people are diagnosed every day, and the actual number may be many times more.
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[09:14] In response to the current risk assessment and testing resources of the SAR, the government has updated the priority and method of testing services from yesterday, including additional rapid testing kits based on regional risks to replace the mandatory testing announcement.
The number of mobile sampling stations will be moderately reduced according to the updated testing priority.
The following 19 mobile sampling stations will cease to operate today
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The promotion of the Director of Civil Exploration and Development has not been officially announced. First, celebrate the violation of the gathering order. Fang Xuecheng's promotion and change
[07:00] Dozens of staff from the Civil Engineering Recruitment Department chartered a boat to hold a party on January 6 to celebrate Fang Xuecheng's promotion to the Director of Civil and Expansion.
At that time, the appointment was not officially announced, and the Civil Extension Administration stated that Fang Xuecheng did not know about his colleagues' celebration beforehand.
"Hong Kong 01" received news that Fang Xuecheng had "fallen off the horse" and the director will be appointed by the director of the North Development Office, Lai Cheuk-ho.
The agency confirmed the incident, but did not explain the reason.
Epidemic ｜ Those who are positive in the rapid test will be able to register online to confirm that they do not need to take a sample bottle for re-testing of the vaccine ｜ Shorten the interval between the third injection of adults to three months It is recommended that adolescents get a thigh shot of Bitai The government's amendment to the "Employment Ordinance" will take effect immediately and block absences from work Vaccines can be dismissed depending on sick leave and no vaccines｜Hong Kong University Research: Teenagers who take two injections of Fubitai or three injections of Sinovac can resist Omicron without fresh pork since Saturday, two slaughterhouses have been closed indefinitely, and the Hong Kong government has asked the mainland to send butchers to Hong Kong
▼The emergency room of Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Guanghua Hospital was full on February 25▼
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[00:00] The positive results of sewage tests in Sham Shui Po, Kwun Tong, Sai Kung, Kwai Tsing and Tuen Mun will be sent to Lai Pak House, Lai Tsui Court, Cheung Sha Wan, starting from Saturday (26th). , Ming Tai Building, On Tai Estate, Kwun Tong, Tseung Kwan O, Tseung Kwan O, Tseung Kwan O, Yi Yue House, Yi Ting House and Yi Yin House, Yee Ming Estate, Tseung Kwan O, Yun Ming House, Yung Ming Court and Shan Lai House, Shin Ming Estate, Shek Kip Mei Estate No. 10 Rapid test kits were distributed to residents and cleaning staff and property management staff of Block Nine, Mei Liang Building, Mei Shan Building, Mei Hong Building, Mei Ru Building and Mei Chang Building, Lai Yan Court, Hua Lai Village and On Ting Village. for them to self-test to help identify infected people.
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Positive sewage samples from multiple districts will send rapid test kits to households and staff. Epidemic situation丨The Department of Health is lagging behind in the review. The hospital exceeds the acceptable number of epidemics｜The number of confirmed cases in Wanda exceeded 10,010 in a single day, 21,000 reported cases, 47 people died
▼On February 25, the inspection of the closed area of Xiuhua Building, Xiu Mau Ping Village, Kwun Tong▼
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12 students and nurses from the University of Hong Kong take care of the elderly in the Cairong Road gymnasium Explain the difference in cost subsidy Correctional Services Department: 202 inmates confirmed positive, 135 rapid test positive suspended visits to 3.6
▼On February 25, Tseung Kwan O On Ning Garden 5 closed area inspection▼
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