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epidemic. 8.10︱ Confirmed cases rebounded by 10%. Quarantine hotel "3+4" applies to returning foreign domestic helpers

2022-08-10T17:09:16.721Z


There were 4,593 confirmed cases in Hong Kong today (10th), a daily rebound of 13.5%; 1,516 confirmed new crown patients were hospitalized in public hospitals, including 201 newly admitted patients, of which 23 were in critical condition, 25 were in serious condition, and 4 more died. study


There were 4,593 confirmed cases in Hong Kong today (10th), a daily rebound of 13.5%; 1,516 confirmed new crown patients were hospitalized in public hospitals, including 201 newly admitted patients, of which 23 were in critical condition, 25 were in serious condition, and 4 more died.

Schools reported 277 cases, and classes in 4 schools had to be closed due to the outbreak.


The epidemic in Hong Kong continues. Before today (10th), the number of confirmed cases reported in a single day for 20 consecutive days exceeded 4,000. With the epidemic situation at a high level, the government announced that it will be gazetted in accordance with the requirements of the Public Health Emergency Regulations under the Prevention and Control of Disease Ordinance , to continue the current social distancing measures, and the effective period is from tomorrow (11th) to the 24th of this month.


Overview of yesterday's epidemic:


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8.9︱Hotel quarantine 3+4 The financial industry re-introduced 4,000 people out of the country and released 4,000 people to quarantine early

▼August 10th Hong Kong Food Expo 2022 Exhibitor Preview▼


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▼Compulsory testing announcement on August 10▼


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Compulsory testing|55 new buildings, Taikoo Shing, Junao Wan, etc., are listed in Kwun Tong District

[23:15] The Medical and Health Bureau announced the announcement of mandatory testing, and a total of 55 buildings were listed.

Among them, 50 buildings have confirmed cases, and public housing and residents still account for the most. Private buildings include Block CD, Man Fung Terrace, 48 Kennedy Road, Wan Chai, Qi Gong Court, Taikoo Shing, Quarry Bay, Ming Lai Court, Regal Gardens, Shatin, and Tseung Kwan O. Metropolis City Central Tower 10, Tseung Kwan O Grand Tower 1, Tseung Kwan O LOHAS Park to the Blue Sky Embankment (left and right wings), Tuen Mun New Tuen Mun Centre Tower 2 and 7, Tuen Mun Zall Residence 5, Yuen Long 8 New Times Square.

Mingyu Building in Kin Ming Village, Tseung Kwan O and King Yu Building in King Lam Village are included in the list of compulsory inspection, that is, there are 5 buildings in the whole district.

The remaining 5 buildings were on the list due to positive sewage samples, involving Yee Tak House and Chi Tak House, Lung Tak Court, Stanley, Po Chak House, Po Lai Court, Cheung Sha Wan, Hong Yam House, On Yam Estate, Kwai Chung, and Block 1, Chun Wang Heen, Tin Shui Wai.

Anyone who has been in a specified building for more than two hours from August 4 to 10 must go for nucleic acid testing tomorrow or the day after (11 or 12).

▼Details of the mandatory inspection announcement on August 10▼


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Diagnosed Buildings | 2,150 new buildings such as Sheyang Ming Shanzhuang and other Li Jiachao residential buildings, Emperor Garden, are on the list again

[20:55] Hong Kong's new crown pneumonia epidemic continues. The Department of Health updated the list of confirmed buildings tonight (10th). In the past 14 days, 10,660 buildings have confirmed cases.

Among the 18 districts, Yuen Long District is the most severe, with 1,015 buildings with confirmed cases, followed by Kowloon City District with 848 buildings on the list.


In terms of newly confirmed buildings on the list, 2,150 buildings were reported on August 9. Among them, there are many mansions in Stanley and its vicinity, including Bluewater on Tai Tam Road, Repulse Bay Villas, Bauhinia Garden in Chung Hom Kok, and South Bay Road. The South Bay Building; 5 Jiayuntai in Jardine's Hill, Stubbs Road Yufeng in the East Mid-Levels, and 14 Yangming Villas are also on the list.

Two more residents of Kingsborough Gardens, where Chief Executive Li Jiachao lived, were also diagnosed.

▼Part of the confirmed buildings▼


Food Expo|An Kee kicks off Thursday, pushes $1 abalone into baskets

[19:33] The five-day food expo will start tomorrow (11th), with over a thousand exhibitors offering a variety of food, home appliances and other products for sale. This year, due to the epidemic, there will be no trial food.

On Kee Seafood, which will be exhibiting again this year, has launched the game "One Mosquito Abalone in a Bottle". Participants can get 150 cans of abalone at the price of one mosquito by putting the most abalone into the basket within a limited time.



Some exhibitors said that due to the extension of the East Rail Line to the exhibition station this year, the flow of people is expected to be guaranteed to a certain extent, but the sales volume is not too optimistic. , "Consumption desire may be slightly different."

The government announced that the quarantine arrangement for people arriving in Hong Kong from overseas and Taiwan will be changed from 7-day hotel quarantine to 3-day hotel quarantine and 4-day home medical monitoring.

▼On August 8, the government announced the "3+4" quarantine arrangements for hotels for isolation▼


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▼The verification QR code scanner used by the store updates the operation status▼


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The secretary tested positive for a quick test, and Xu Zhengyu, the director of the Treasury Bureau, was still at work on Tuesday, and he tested negative for the virus.

[17:10] The Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau said today (10th) that a secretary of the authorities tested positive for the rapid antigen test for COVID-19.

The secretary is responsible for providing secretarial services to the Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury, Xu Zhengyu, and does not need to contact the public during his work. The authorities said that Xu Zhengyu had a daily rapid test for the new crown virus, and the results were all negative.

More than 23 sewage-positive three districts, including Mansion Court in Wong Tai Sin and Suntec Plaza in Tai Po, sent 270,000 rapid test kits

[17:03] The new crown pneumonia epidemic in Hong Kong continues, and confirmed cases spread to various districts.

The Hong Kong Government announced today (10th) that in response to the fact that the Central and Western Districts, Tai Po, and Wong Tai Sin districts have tested positive for sewage in some locations and have relatively high levels of virus, the Housing Department and the local District Office will gradually report to the concerned districts. Residents, cleaners and property managers distributed a total of about 270,000 rapid antigen test kits for self-testing.

The housing estates and buildings involved in each district include Fu Ya Garden, Suntec Plaza, King Nga Court in Tai Po; Wong Tai Sin Mansion, Kai Tak Garden, Tsz Oi Court, as well as Hollywood Building, Sheung Nga Court and Yan Chui House in Central and Western District Wait.

▼Some housing estates and housing estates were positive for sewage on August 10▼


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277 more teachers and students infected with the virus Li Zhaoqiang Elementary School and other 4 schools have classes suspended Children's Hospital 4 medical staff confirmed the epidemic | 4593 more cases and 4 deaths 87-year-old woman with intestinal rupture and peritonitis worsened and died, three injections of red and yellow code | 13,000 people in two days Zhang Zhujun left the quarantine hotel early: the principle is first in, first out

[16:58] Zhang Zhujun said that 3+4 was implemented on Friday, and he lived for a few days, so he didn’t need to leave on Friday at one time. Currently, it is arranged to leave in batches, but it is not possible to leave immediately after staying for 3 days. The hotel is staffed according to the principle of first-in, first-out. Knowing that the hotel will notify individual people that Bian Ri can leave, 9,000 people left one after another today, and more than 4,000 people could leave yesterday.

In addition, the number of imported malaria cases increased by 6, from 75 reported last time.

[16:55] Classes in 4 schools have been suspended for a week due to the outbreak of the epidemic:

1) Hong Chi Tsui Lam Chen Gang School (Sai ​​Kung): High School Class A 2 students were infected

2) Sheng Kung Hui Tak Tin Lee Siu Keung Primary School (Kwun Tong): 33 students in Class 3E, 4 infected

3) Kindergarten Affiliated to Hong Kong Baptist University in Kowloon City: There are 16 students in the lower class A, 2 people are infected

4) Kowloon Tong Christian and Missionary Association Taishan Chen Yuanxi Primary School (Shatin): 27 people in Class 4B, 3 people were infected

[16:51] Guan Huimin said that there were 4 staff members in the Hematology and Oncology ward of Hong Kong Children's Hospital, including 1 doctor, 2 nurses, and a patient service assistant. There is a quick test. The ward is a relatively high-risk and low-resistance patient. Colleagues do nucleic acid tests twice a week. Although they were negative at first, they felt uncomfortable, and they were diagnosed again. No other people in the ward have been diagnosed. There are no close contacts, and the confirmed employee took care of a patient who was infected in the community in early July. The source and case connection are being investigated, and genetic sequencing will be done.

[16:44] Zhang Zhujun, director of the Infectious Diseases Division of the Centre for Health Protection, said that today (10th) Hong Kong has increased 4,593 confirmed cases, including 249 imported cases.

The school reported 277 cases.

Classes in 4 schools have been suspended due to the outbreak.

In terms of changes in virus strains, BA.4/5 cases have initially risen to 13.1% as a whole yesterday.

[16:30] Kwan Wai-min, Chief Administrative Manager of the Hospital Authority, said that today (10th) in Hong Kong, a total of 1,516 confirmed COVID-19 patients are hospitalized in public hospitals, including 201 newly admitted patients, of which 23 are critical, 25 are serious, and 4 more are die.

Among them, an 87-year-old female patient, who lives with her family, has received 3 injections, has an abnormal heart rhythm and has brain degeneration. On July 31, she was tired and lost her appetite. She went to the A&E department and was found to be positive. She was admitted to the hospital for treatment and had abdominal pain on the same day. , and then received a computer scan, the intestines were ruptured, the clinical condition was unstable, and it was not suitable for surgery. The peritonitis deteriorated and was delayed until yesterday.

Foreign domestic helpers arriving in Hong Kong will be allowed to work at their employer's home under "3+4" quarantine for four days from Friday

[15:09] A spokesman for the Labour Department said today (10th) that from this Friday (12th), foreign domestic helpers who come to work in Hong Kong will be subject to a "3+4" mode of quarantine, that is, they must be subject to compulsory quarantine in designated quarantine hotels Three days of quarantine, followed by four days of home medical surveillance, and multiple tests during the medical surveillance period and an observation period of the following three days.

During the medical surveillance period, foreign domestic helpers must be restricted by the yellow code of "Vaccine Pass," and are not allowed to enter high-risk places that involve not wearing masks or group activities, and other places that require special protection.

It is difficult for the school to identify the "yellow code" identity, and the Education Bureau will give clear guidance

[13:55] Education Bureau Director Cai Ruolian said yesterday (9th) that students with "yellow codes" can go to school as usual, but they must report to the school on their own initiative, and special arrangements must be made for school activities or meals.

DSS Schools Council Chairman Chen Di-an said on the radio today (10th) that students do not need to use "Safe Travel" to go to school, and the school has no way of knowing whether they are "yellow code" people.

However, I believe that students will take the initiative to declare, and I hope the Education Bureau can provide clear guidelines.

OGCIO received a "wrong code transfer" enquiry Wong Chi-kwong: It is up to the public to make inquiries about color errors

[11:55] The government has introduced red and yellow codes to match the return to Hong Kong quarantine and changed it to "3+4" measures. Huang Zhiguang, deputy director of government information technology, said on the radio program this morning (10th) that the "safe travel" telephone hotline for the past two days (2626 3066) received about 2,000 enquiries, of which about 300 were related to the red-yellow code measures. One of them involved the wrong color of the QR code of the vaccine passport, which was corrected after processing.

Federation of Industries predicts that "3+4" will attract 70% of professionals to Hong Kong to advocate epidemic stabilization and exemption from hotel quarantine

[10:30] The government implemented the red-yellow code measures for safe travel from yesterday (9th), and will shorten the hotel quarantine period to "3+4" from this Friday (12th).

Zhuang Zixiong, executive vice-chairman of the Federation of Hong Kong Industries, said in a radio program today that the new quarantine policy has "greatly helped" Hong Kong's corporate talents to travel overseas and overseas professionals to come to Hong Kong, and is expected to attract 60 to 70% of business professionals to Hong Kong.

However, the current yellow code restricts business travelers arriving in Hong Kong from entering exhibition venues such as exhibitions and exhibitions. He suggested that those who enter the exhibition venues should take epidemic prevention measures. He believes that the risk of infection is not large, and he hopes the government can "relax".



He also suggested that under the premise that the epidemic situation is stable and the medical system can cope with it, the quarantine measures can be further relaxed, from "3+4" to "0+7" or "0+4", that is, hotel quarantine is exempted.

▼Under the epidemic, the flow of people at Hong Kong Airport has been greatly reduced▼


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▼Compulsory testing announcement from August 1▼


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▼On August 6, parents took their infants and children to Guanyong Vaccination Center to get Kexing vaccine▼


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Compulsory testing | 43 premises including Tai On Building and Harbour Plaza are on the list. Chi Lin Day Care Center is also involved in the red and yellow codes. The government announced that no outdoor sports are prohibited. Code” can return to school Cai Ruolian: It is necessary to actively report to the school that 4,045 new cases have been confirmed. 3. The elderly who have not received all injections have passed away. Quick Test Quarantine Hotel 3+4 | Travel Council expects 20% to 30% increase in Hong Kong people visiting Hong Kong, which will not help the epidemic | 8 schools have to suspend classes in case of epidemic outbreak St. Catherine's Kindergarten is on the list again The system is overloaded and the Yau Ma Tei restaurant has not affected the red and yellow codes | The Correctional Services Department will list the red code and the yellow code from now on not allowed to visit the quarantine hotel 3+4 | This promises that the tourism industry will double the number of quarantine rooms. The "3+4" arrangement will mainly benefit business travelers. The Hong Kong government implements the "3+4" quarantine arrangement. Follow the OGCIO: There is no personal privacy risk in the automatic transfer of the blue code. The isolation hotel will be changed to 3+4. Lu Chongmao expects that the community risk will not increase. Those who return to work must eat separately. Trade Development Council welcomes entry. The hotel quarantine is reduced to 3 days Chairman Lin Jianyue: Exhibitors will consider coming to the epidemic.

8.9︱Hotel quarantine 3+4 The financial industry re-introduced 4,000 people out of the country and released 4,000 people to quarantine early

Source: hk1

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