The COVID-19 outbreak continues, with 437 new cases reported by schools today, involving 365 students and 81 staff.
The Centre for Health Protection said that there are five more schools that have individual classes to be closed, including Kwun Tong Hokkien Middle School, Maryknoll Fathers Mission School Primary School, Kowloon Tong Christian and Missionary Association Taishan Chen Yuanxi Primary School, etc.
In addition, St. Anthony's Primary School and Sai Wan Ho Ming Wo Kindergarten, which had classes suspended earlier, have been suspended due to the infection of other students in other classes. The authorities have not found any connection between the cases in the classes involved.
There were 4,547 new confirmed cases in Hong Kong today (3rd), including 4,321 local confirmed cases and 226 imported cases.
Zhang Zhujun, director of the Infectious Diseases Division of the Centre for Health Protection, said that schools reported 437 cases, involving 365 students and 81 teaching staff, involving a total of 330 schools.
She added that there were 228 schools with two or more cases in the past seven days, and five schools were advised to suspend classes for individual classes.
▼On August 2, the first enclosure of Tuen Mun Jingfeng Garden was forced to test▼
The list of the five schools with individual class suspensions is as follows:
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Among the 28 students in Class 2A of Taishan Chen Yuanxi Primary School of Kowloon Tong Christian Missionary Association, three were diagnosed.
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Among the 26 students in the 3D class of the primary section of the Maryknoll Church School in Sham Shui Po, three were infected.
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Three of the 20 students in the K1B class of Lu Guo Bifeng Kindergarten of Tin King Village Baptist Church in Tuen Mun were infected with the virus.
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Among the 20 students in the PN Wetland class of Kindergarten in Tsuen Wan, three were infected with the virus.
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Of the 32 students in Class 5D of Hokkien Middle School in Kwun Tong, four were diagnosed.
▼Tiaojingling Christian Jianming Preschool will be closed for one week on August 2▼
One more class at St. Anthony's Primary School and Sai Wan Ho Ming Wo Kindergarten will be suspended for one week
In addition to the above five schools, two schools were advised to suspend classes due to the outbreak of the epidemic in individual classes on August 1, namely Class 2C of St. Anton Primary School in Kwun Tong and Kindergarten Class D of Ming Wo Kindergarten in Sai Wan Ho.
Zhang Zhujun pointed out that the above-mentioned two schools will suspend classes if there is an outbreak of the epidemic. Among the 30 students in the 2E class of St. Andrews Primary School, three of them contracted the epidemic and had to suspend classes. No connection with the previously suspended 2E class has been found so far.
In Mingwo Kindergarten, there are 27 students in Class D, and three of them have been diagnosed. There is no connection with the Class D of the previous outbreak.
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