The novel coronavirus pneumonia epidemic in Hong Kong continues, and some classes in many schools have to suspend classes due to confirmed cases.
The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) of the Department of Health announced today (11th) that 287 new cases were reported in schools, involving 231 schools, including Po Leung Kuk Law School Trust School, Hong Kong Youth Foundation Trust Nursery School (Farm Road), and Sheng Kung Hui St. Peter's Church Kindergarten (Stanley Branch), some classes have to be suspended for a week.
In terms of residential care homes, five new elderly homes have reported confirmed cases. Among them, Fengyuan Nursing Home has five more residents today after two residents were diagnosed yesterday (10th). 32 residents and Three staff members are subject to quarantine.
In addition, as of August 8, cases suspected of being infected with mutated virus strains Omicron BA.4 and 5 accounted for 15% of the total confirmed cases, an increase from the average of the past seven days.
Zhang Zhujun, director of the Infectious Diseases Division of the Centre for Health Protection, said at a press conference on the epidemic today that there were 4,376 new confirmed cases, of which 287 were newly reported by schools, involving 230 students and 57 teaching staff.
In addition, 121 schools have recorded two or more cases in the past seven days. The authorities recommended that 3 schools suspend classes for one week for individual classes, including the Po Leung Kuk Law School Trust School in Yuen Long, which is a special school. Among the eight students in Class 53A One person was diagnosed.
The rest of the schools are Hong Kong Youth Foundation Nursery School (Nongpu Road), where two of the 19 students in Class K2 were diagnosed with the virus; and one of the 14 students in Class AM, Class K2, of Sheng Kung Hui St. Peter's Church Kindergarten (Stanley Branch) and a teacher diagnosed.
7 residents of Fengyuan Nursing Home diagnosed with 35 people need to be quarantined
In terms of residential care, five new elderly homes and one disabled residential home have reported confirmed cases. Seven residents in the elderly home including Feng Yuen Nursing Home have been diagnosed with confirmed cases, and 32 residents and three staff members have to be quarantined; Pok Oi Hospital has One resident of the nursing and attention home has tested positive, and four residents are under quarantine.
In addition, one resident of the Chung Fong Nian Chi Nursing Home of the Society for the Elderly has tested positive and one resident needs to be quarantined; a staff member of the True Phoenix Nursing Home has tested positive, 13 residents and three employees need to be quarantined, and Hui Ji One resident of the nursing home has tested positive, and four residents have to be quarantined.
In terms of disabled homes, one resident of the Lutheran Lee Tung Dormitory has tested positive, and six have to be quarantined.
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15% of confirmed cases involved BA.4 or BA.5 strains
In terms of variant virus strains, confirmed cases suspected to involve Omicron BA.4 or 5 strains accounted for an average of 10.7% of the patients in the past seven days, while the suspected BA.2.12.1 cases accounted for 7%.
However, Zhang Zhujun pointed out that calculated on a single day on August 8, the proportion of confirmed cases suspected to be Omicron BA.4 or 5 has risen to 15%, while the suspected BA.2.12.1 has dropped slightly to 6.5%.
More than half of the 80-year-old women who were infected with the virus died, the newly diagnosed and admitted to the hospital exceeded 200, and the elderly accounted for more than half.
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