There were 17,080 new confirmed cases of new coronavirus in Mugang yesterday (15th), exceeding the daily average of 14,000 to 15,000 new cases in the past seven days, setting a new high in a single day in the past nine months, and returning to the mid-March level.
Will it affect the customs clearance process with the Mainland?
Chief Executive Li Jiachao sent reassurance last night. He wrote on Facebook that customs clearance in 2023 is "very realistically possible." But before that, it is necessary to increase the number of "health stations" entering Shenzhen and adjust the "point-to-point" transportation mode of cross-border trucks. , Resuming exchanges between the two places step by step.
Zhong Nan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said in a lecture yesterday that the name "COVID-19" originally meant Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, but as the fatality rate has decreased, the fatality rate of the Omicron variant strain has become equivalent to that of seasonal influenza.
Summary of yesterday's epidemic:
- An increase of 17,080 confirmed cases, a sharp increase of 14.8% compared with yesterday's cases.
- 831 imported cases, accounting for 4.86% of the overall case rate; compared with the 16,214 arrivals at the airport on the same day, the confirmed rate was 5.13%, and the seven-day average rate was 4.23%
- 19 new patients died, and the seven-day average death rate It dropped slightly to 0.178%, the overall death rate remained slightly at 0.48%, and the cumulative death toll was 11,075.
- The local XBB case increased by 1, the local BF.7 increased by 1, and the local BQ.1.1 increased by 5, with a total of 7 cases.
- The number of cases in nursing homes remains at a high level. There were 32 cases in residential homes today, and 49 residents and 9 staff were infected.
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12.15｜An increase of 17,080 confirmed cases and an increase of 19 deaths. The seven-day average death rate dropped slightly
List of relaxed epidemic prevention measures:
1. Citizens no longer need to scan the "Travel with Peace of Mind", but they will still be "anti-scanned" when entering designated places, that is, they still need to use Vaccine Pass
2. The "yellow code" will be cancelled, and citizens can enter designated places after entering the country
. Nucleic acid testing for people from the Mainland and Macao at ports
4. Adjust the local nucleic acid testing strategy and gradually reduce the number of testing announcements issued to residential buildings
5. Cancel the requirement for electronic wristbands for people in home quarantine
The latest effective reproduction rate of local cases at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong is 1.41, that is, one patient infects about 1.5 people, showing signs of a plateau.
(Photo from HKU Faculty of Medicine)
[13:05] The Macao Special Administrative Region Government announced that starting from 00:00 tomorrow (17th), it will relax the epidemic prevention measures for Hong Kong, Taiwan and foreign immigrants. The current "5+3" measures include centralized isolation medical observation and 3-day home isolation Medical observation will be changed to "optimized 5+3" from midnight, which means 5 days of home isolation medical observation and 3 days of departure restrictions.
[12:30] The spokesperson of the Bureau of Environment and Ecology said today (16th) that a family member of Liu Liqun, Permanent Secretary of the Bureau of Environment and Ecology (Food), was diagnosed with the new crown virus disease. She is now undergoing home quarantine according to the guidelines of the Center for Health Protection. Will work from home during quarantine.
Liu Liqun has regularly undergone new coronavirus nucleic acid tests and rapid antigen tests, and the results are all negative. She wears a mask and abides by relevant epidemic prevention measures when she is working.
[12:20] The government continued to conduct surprise inspections on two mandatory inspection buildings this morning (16th).
Among them, the Working Family and Student Financial Assistance Office and the Secretariat of the University Grants Committee, together with the Kwai Tsing Police District and the Department of Health, carried out law enforcement operations at Block 3, Haixin Garden, Tsing Yi, which was included in the mandatory testing announcement earlier, and checked a total of 185 people. Among them, 11 people were found to have failed to comply with the mandatory testing announcement, so they were issued a mandatory testing order, and the government issued a fixed penalty notice of 10,000 yuan to 8 of them.
The action starts at 8:30pm and ends at 11:30am.
In addition, the Electrical and Mechanical Services Department, together with the Sau Mau Ping Police District and the Department of Health, carried out law enforcement operations at Kai Hong Court, Kai Tai Court, Kowloon Bay, which was earlier included in the mandatory testing announcement. A total of 155 people were inspected, and all of them were tested in accordance with the regulations.
The operation started at about 8:00 am and ended at about 11:30 am.
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