There were 294 new cases in Hong Kong today (12th). Following a group outbreak at the Peony Golden Court hotpot restaurant in Yuen Long, Hung Hom Xinwang Club also suspected a "billiard group".
Zhang Zhujun, director of the Infectious Diseases Division of the Centre for Health Protection of the Department of Health, pointed out that these groups were all found by the authorities. The number of confirmed cases has dropped in recent days. The authorities are now able to find some groups that were not found before. group, and does not affect the government's relaxation of social distancing measures.
▼On May 12, the Department of Health announced that the Hung Hom Xinwang Club was suspected of being a "billiard group"▼
Does not affect the relaxation of Zhang Zhujun in the second stage: the existing ability to find groups that were not found before
Zhang Zhujun said that there were no new cases of "Peony Golden Court Hotpot Shabu Shabu" in Yuen Long, where a total of 23 people have been infected with the virus. , Recently, there is a suspected outbreak of epidemic in the billiard room of Hung Hom's "Xin Wang Club", will it affect the next stage of relaxation?
Zhang said that these groups of cases were all identified by the authorities, and pointed out that the current number of cases is low, and the authorities have the ability to find some groups that were not found before. She believes that these identified groups will not affect the relaxation of social distancing measures.
▼On May 7th, the Department of Health announced that the Yuen Long Peony Golden Pavilion Shangpin Hotpot Shabu Shabu had an outbreak▼
14 additional schools reported that one school had 2 students and 1 staff recruited
As for schools, there were 14 reports today, including 13 students and 1 staff, involving 13 schools.
Zhang Zhujun mentioned that there were 3 cases in a school, including a staff member and 2 students. The two students were reported today and belong to the same family. The authorities have investigated the time of contact between the staff member and the students, and they believe that their infection may not necessarily be the case. There are relationships.
▼Lions Middle School resumes on May 3▼
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4 more Omicron BA.2.12.1 and 2 more BA.2.4 inputs
In addition, through whole-genome analysis, the authorities identified 4 imported cases involving the BA.2.12.1 variant virus strain, who arrived in Hong Kong between April 30 and May 7, and 3 were found at the airport, together with the earlier discovery. There are a total of 11 cases involving the BA.2.12.1 variant virus strain in Hong Kong.
The authorities also found 2 imported cases involving the BA.2.4 variant virus strain, both of which were found at the airport. One arrived in Hong Kong from Ethiopia, South Africa on May 6, and the other arrived in Hong Kong from the United States via Japan on May 7. .
▼On May 12, 14 swimming pools of the LCSD will reopen▼
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