epidemic. Latest｜Hong Kong confirmed 10,000 cases for six consecutive days

The number of new crown pneumonia epidemics has been repeated. About 10,000 cases have been confirmed in Hong Kong for six consecutive days. The Department of Health announced yesterday (6th) that there were 9,952 new confirmed cases, 16 more deaths, and a total of 10,842 deaths. And severe patients, but the number of new critically ill patients in a single day compared with the total number of patients staying in hospital remains at about 1%.

"Reuters" quoted sources as saying that the mainland announced 10 new epidemic prevention measures as soon as today (7th), as a supplement to the 20 measures to optimize epidemic prevention and control released in early November. In January next year, the level of prevention and control of infectious diseases for new coronary pneumonia will be lowered from "Class B and A" to "B and B".

Summary of yesterday's epidemic:

- 9,952 confirmed cases, and the number of confirmed cases in a single day is approaching 10,000.

- 725 imported cases hit a new high, accounting for 7.28% of the overall case rate; compared with the 16,771 airport arrivals on the same day, the confirmed rate was 4.23%, and the seven-day average rate was 4.03%.

- 16 new patients died, the 7-day average mortality rate dropped slightly to 0.163%, the overall mortality rate remained at 0.50%, and the cumulative death toll was 10,842.

- The local XBB cases increased by 9 to a total of 113 cases, and the local BQ.1.1 cases increased by 2 to a total of 123 cases.

- The number of cases in nursing homes remains high. Today, 26 nursing homes had cases, and 41 residents and staff were infected.

The latest immediate effective reproduction rate of local cases at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong is 1.183, which means that one patient can infect more than one person, and is recovering from a low level.

(Photo from HKU Faculty of Medicine)

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