A cluster of new coronavirus infections appeared in the female ward of the Department of Chest and Pulmonary Department of Wong Tai Sin Hospital, suspected of involving compassionate visits.
Ho Pak Leung, director of the Centre for Infection and Infectious Diseases at the University of Hong Kong, said today (5th) that the median incubation period of Omicron virus is about 2.5 days, and within about 24 hours after the compassionate visit, in addition to the visitors, three other people in the ward also tested positive. , believes that the greater chance is that the visitor is infected in the ward, and the story should not affect the visiting arrangement.
He Bailiang said in the Hong Kong and Taiwan program "Millennium Times" today that in the Wong Tai Sin Hospital group, five people tested positive within 24 hours after the compassionate visit, and it is believed that the greater chance is that the visitors were infected during the discussion: I didn’t know it was infected, but during the visit, the virus spread to the dying family members, as well as the three patients who were in the same room.”
He also pointed out that visitors are required to wear masks in the ward, but some dying patients or the elderly may not wear masks. In the past, such groups usually spread the virus from those who did not wear masks to those who wore masks. Existing Compassionate Visiting arrangements should be affected.
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As for the trend of the epidemic, He Bailiang believes that the most important thing is vaccination. At present, 30% of the elderly over the age of 80 still have not received a shot. I believe that some of them are the elderly living alone in the community, and the support is insufficient.
At present, the effectiveness of closed district inspection and sewage inspection is very low. Therefore, the relevant measures should be cancelled, and resources and manpower should be redeployed to organize outreach teams to land in the districts, and even "sweep the building" to give the elderly home injections.
He also mentioned that there are data showing that children under the age of 3 have good effects of vaccinating Fubitai vaccine, and the government should negotiate the purchase as soon as possible.
Ho Pak Leung, director of the Centre for Infection and Infectious Diseases at the University of Hong Kong.
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