The fifth wave of the epidemic has not yet ended, but the sixth wave is about to come. After the new confirmed cases in Hong Kong remained at the level of 200 to 300 for ten consecutive days, today (17th), there were 328 new confirmed cases and 300 new cases. level, 39 were imported cases.
The Chief Executive, Carrie Lam, announced before the Executive Council this morning that the second phase of relaxation of social distancing measures will be implemented on Thursday (19th) as scheduled, including extending dine-in meals to 12 pm and bars to be open until 2 am.
However, she predicts that the immediate effective reproduction rate of local cases may rise to 1 within a day, and every time the social distancing is relaxed, there is an increasing risk of cases, so she urges the public to wear masks outside of eating and exercising.
Summary of yesterday's epidemic reports:
Epidemic・5.16｜The mystery of Yushan's private kitchen outbreak is still unsolved, Tung Chung Tanzai Yunnan rice noodle has become a new hot spot
The real-time effective reproduction rate of local cases from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong has risen to 0.9932 late on the 16th, which means that one patient infects another.
(Screenshot of the website of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong)
[17:00] An additional 20 schools reported positive cases, involving 2 students from 2 kindergartens, 6 students and 1 staff from 7 primary schools, 9 students and 1 staff from 9 secondary schools, and 1 special school staff.
Among them, a confirmed middle school student was in the same class as another confirmed student announced yesterday. The two had eaten and had contact in the same room. They finally went to school on May 12, and other students in the same class tested negative for the time being.
[16:53] Among the three confirmed diners at Tung Chung Fu Tung shopping mall, one of them had symptoms when he visited on May 11. Au Jiarong pointed out that he may be the source patient.
[16:50] A ward service assistant in Xiaolan Hospital was diagnosed, and new cases and visits were suspended. All patients and staff must be tested.
[16:49] Kwun Tong Yushan private kitchen group case, Au Jiarong pointed out that he had asked the patient about the activities at Yushan private kitchen that day. Some of them reported that it was a gathering between friends, a work meeting, and an exchange with business partners. Some cases revealed that they had eaten , There was a celebration and tasting meeting that night, and people inside took off their masks to eat and drink, which is believed to be the cause of the outbreak.
[16:48] Ou Jiarong pointed out that there were 8 more cases in Xingyue Building, Sheung Wan, including 3 employees and 5 diners, one of whom was a chef. A total of 64 people in the group were diagnosed, involving 55 diners and 9 employees. Genetic analysis confirmed a locally prevalent Omicron case.
As for Xinwanghui, one more confirmed case involves a 56-year-old customer. During the forced inspection, it was found that a total of 15 people in the group were diagnosed, involving 13 diners and 2 employees.
[16:45] There are 9 new cases in the Kwun Tong Yushan Private Kitchen Group, including 1 staff member. There are currently 20 cases in the group, involving 19 customers and 1 staff member.
[16:43] Three people who did not know each other in Tan Tsai, Fu Tung Shopping Centre, Tung Chung, were diagnosed after eating at the same time on May 11, including a 32-year-old woman, a 40-year-old man and a 33-year-old man.
[16:40] There were no new deaths in Hong Kong yesterday, and there were no new deaths for two consecutive days.
As for today's 39 imported cases, 4 are related to the Omicron BA.4 variant virus. So far, there are 7 BA.4 cases in Hong Kong.
[16:35] Au Jiarong, chief doctor of the Infectious Diseases Division of the Center for Health Protection of the Department of Health, pointed out that two patients who arrived in Hong Kong from the United States on the 12th of this month and were tested positive after visiting Xinwanghui confirmed that the virus they carried was a prevalent virus in Hong Kong. The virus strain was infected in Xinwanghui after completing the quarantine, so the two cases will be reclassified as local cases.
[16:31] There were 328 new confirmed cases in Hong Kong, returning to the level of 300, with 39 imported cases.
▼On May 16th, the East Rail Line and Tsuen Wan Line of Admiralty Station will release workers' tide▼
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More than 40 housing estates tested positive for sewage, involving 300,000 people in Yingwan Garden in Tung Chung and Tai Hing Garden in Tuen Mun to be tested quickly
[16:30] The authorities said that the Environmental Protection Agency and the Drainage Services Department are collecting sewage samples in various districts for coronavirus testing, and positive results have been detected in the sewage in some areas, indicating that there may be hidden patients on premises in the area.
The sewage test results of several housing estates in Tuen Mun, North District and Islands District were positive and the virus load was relatively high. The housing estates and buildings involved include:
• Tuen Mun District - Tsui Ming Terrace, Tai Hing Garden Phases 1 and 2, Kangde Garden, Greenwood Garden, Zhuoerju, Wu King Village, Butterfly Village, Namlang Bay, Fu Jian Garden and Joyful Peninsula
• North District - Tin Ping Estate, Hop Fung Building, Wo Fung Tang Building, Jia Wo Xuan, Ho King Building, Fu Ho Court, Fu Yan Building, Bao On Building, Po Cheong Building, Po Lian Building, Kin Fung Building, New China Bank Building, Cheong Wah Building, Lok Fung Building, Tai Cheong Building, Bin Yuan, Meilun Building, Lianhe Centre, Luen Cheong Building, Lianfa Building, Fengjing Building, Jinlai Building, Kam Fook Building, You Hing Building, 41-53 Wo Tai Street , 53-55 Wo Fung Street, 53-55 Luen Wo Road, 2-4, 14-16 and 17-35B Luen Cheong Street and 18-36B Luen Shing Street
• Outlying Islands District (Tung Chung) - Ying Wan Garden (Ying Tao, Yue Tao, Hai Po Mansion, Sang Tao and Ting Tao), Blue Sky Coast ((i) Blue Sky Coast, (ii) Water and Blue Sky, ( iii) Shadow Shore Red and (iv) Water Blue. Sky Shore) and Seawall
▼ On January 1, the compulsory inspection of the closed area of Yingwan Park in Tung Chung▼
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Vaccine Pass｜5.31 Implementation of the third phase of the implementation of three injections in restaurants
[13:30] The third phase of the "Vaccine Pass" will be implemented on the 31st of this month, entering the last two weeks. The government reminds the public today that all citizens aged 12 or above must obtain a medical exemption certificate unless To be vaccinated against the new crown according to the government's requirements, in order to meet the requirements of the "vaccine passport".
Taking recovered people as an example, they can use the "QR code of recovery record" to enter relevant places within six months after recovery; if they have received two or three injections before infection, they do not need to receive additional vaccinations, and the "QR code" will expire. You can continue to use it later.
Non-recovered people need to have received the third shot, and their "vaccine passport" is valid, except that it is less than six months after the second shot.
▼List of vaccine passes▼
[13:00] Tung Chung Fudong Shopping Center Tanzai Yunnan Rice Noodles is suspected to have an outbreak. The reporter inspected the store this morning. The store was not open this morning, and company staff were also present to put up notices to inform diners of the store. Some people who have been initially diagnosed have visited and said that a cleaning company has been arranged for disinfection.
A diner who patronized the next door admitted that he did not know that Tan Zai was suspected of having a case, otherwise he would not even help the nearby restaurant: "It's a shock, the dead man is a big boss"; he said that he had never been infected with the epidemic, so although he had already played the first time Three needles, but still worried.
The government will pay 2 million to the vaccination case before death. The expert committee has commented that the cause of death is uncertain
[11:25] More than 90% of Hong Kong residents have received at least one shot of the vaccine, with a total of 16.48 million vaccine doses.
The Vaccine Unusual Events Protection Fund, set up with a government grant of $1 billion, has awarded a compensation of $2 million for a death case for the first time.
The case involved a 66-year-old woman who had been vaccinated with Fubitai 16 days before her death.
This case is the only one for the time being that was rated as "indeterminate" as the cause of death by the Expert Committee on Clinical Event Assessment and whether it was related to the vaccine, and was finally approved for the protection fund.
Epidemic ｜ Disagreement on the storage and abolition of vaccine passes Xu Shuchang: Good words have no impact on the medical system
[10:45] Experts disagree on whether the vaccine pass policy should continue to be implemented!
Gao Benn, Chair Professor of Epidemiology at the School of Public Health of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong, and Chen Deguang, Honorary Assistant Professor of the Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, published a commentary in the newspaper yesterday (16th), suggesting that the policy of compulsory use of vaccine passports for adults under the age of 60 should be abolished.
Xu Shuchang, an expert advisor to the government and chair professor of the Department of Respiratory Medicine at CUHK, responded on a radio program this morning that he believed that the government would not agree with the two's speech, and stressed that "it doesn't matter if a place coexists with the virus", and Hong Kong still adopts a dynamic reset.
Chen Deguang also expressed his own views on the same program this morning. He believes that the purpose of the vaccine barrier is to prevent the virus from spreading, but neither Fubita nor Kexing could prevent the fifth wave, and the fifth wave ends because most people have naturally Therefore, it is not believed that the vaccine can prevent the sixth and seventh waves, and it is emphasized that everyone is encouraged to get injections. It is just that the proportion of young people who are seriously ill or die is low, and it will not put pressure on the medical system.
▼On April 14, Chief Executive Carrie Lam received the fourth dose of Sinovac vaccine▼
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[10:42] The closure of Sau Lam House, Tsui Lam Estate, Tseung Kwan O was lifted. About 980 people were tested during the enclosure. Nine positive test cases and one case with indeterminate test results were found. The Centre for Health Protection of the Department of Health will arrange for follow-up.
Epidemic︱Social restrictions are eased as scheduled on May 19, Lin Zheng admits that the fifth wave of stalemate is at a low level: but the risk is controllable and epidemic prevention restrictions continue to be relaxed.
[09:47] Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor described that the epidemic situation in Hong Kong is at a stalemate, and the number of cases has not increased or decreased significantly. However, there are groups of outbreaks in places with high-risk people, such as Xingyuelou, Sheung Wan, etc., and appeals to the public to relax social distancing while enjoying At the same time, wear a mask and don't take it lightly.
She emphasized that every time social distancing measures are relaxed, there is a risk of an increase in cases, and she expects that the immediate effective reproduction rate of the virus may rise above the "1" level in the next few days.
[09:45] The Chief Executive, Carrie Lam, announced before the Executive Council that the second phase of relaxation of social distancing measures will be implemented on Thursday (19th) as scheduled, including extending dine-in meals to 12:00 pm and bars open until 2:00 am.
▼On May 15, the "Yu Shan Private Kitchen" epidemic broke out in Kwun Tong Industrial Building▼
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Epidemic | The sixth wave of the outbreak is in the upcoming fifth wave. Big data in Hong Kong shows that the epidemic is worsening
[07:00] Although the fifth wave of the epidemic has passed the peak in March, the current epidemic is still hovering at the level of 200 to 300 cases per day. After the relaxation of social distancing measures, multiple clusters broke out.
Leung Cheuk-wai, an expert advisor to the government and dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong, infers with a virus calculation model that if one is not careful, there will be a sixth wave of the epidemic in Hong Kong in two weeks, which will arouse the attention of the whole city.
Kwok Kin-an, an assistant professor at the School of Public Health and Primary Care at CUHK, believes that the peak of the outbreak is expected in autumn and winter, and stressed that the sixth wave will only occur when a new variant of the virus hits Hong Kong, and now it is only the fifth wave.
Will the sixth wave break out in the short term?
The "Real-time Effective Reproduction Rate of Local Cases" compiled by the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong rose to 0.9932, a two-month high.
Epidemic ｜ A total of 11 people from Kwun Tong Yu Shan’s private kitchen were recruited by CCTV and 40 people visited the epidemic on the day of the outbreak ｜ He Pak Leung pointed out that the outbreak group in the restaurant was expected: it is not good that minor cases will affect the normal vaccine ｜ Research reveals that there is no injection of anti-epidemic antibodies Vaccine passport for low-injection is 6 times higher and can resist other variant viruses | Experts recommend that only the elderly can use the vaccine Department of Health: the basic vaccine passport must be established to resume normal vaccines | The University of Hong Kong experts recommend that the use of the vaccine is limited to the elderly due to the low risk of severe illness in young adults
Frozen shrimp packaged in Indonesia detected new coronavirus in Macau, Hong Kong's PARKnSHOP is available for sale, Food Safety Center urges to stop eating Lady MacLehose Resort and Cao Gong Tam Outdoor Recreation Center from 5.27 to accept reservations for your tour | 150 itineraries are released, the first to promote paid upgrades tomorrow morning 10 Time travel agency snapped up
▼From May 11, the mandatory inspection announcement will be listed on the list▼
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Mandatory testing｜40 buildings suspected of outbreak of the epidemic in the Tung Chung Fu Tung Plaza branch of Tanzai Yunnan Rice Noodles were listed on the list of Tai Po, Tai Wai, Kwai Tsing and other housing estates that tested positive for sewage. The government sent 160,000 quick test kits to diagnose the buildings｜ An increase of 173 detached houses at Marina Cove in Sai Kung in a single day and No. 1 Shatin Genting is listed in the list of closed areas｜Enclosure of Sau Lam House, Tsui Lam Estate, Tseung Kwan O, the target of forced inspection, completed the operation at 8 a.m. on Tuesday. Strong inspection announcement
▼On May 15, three new station platforms of the MTR East Rail Line crossing the sea▼
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